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“What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.”

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“Often ignored by civil rights historians, a number of campaigns led to trials and even convictions throughout the South. These cases, many virtually unknown, broke with Southern tradition and fractured the philosophical and political foundations of white supremacy by challenging the relationship between sexual domination and racial equality.”

Feminism Civil Rights Movement Black Power

Book:At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

Source: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power

“To say that we want wages for housework is to expose the fact that housework is already money for capital, that capital has made and makes money out of our cooking, smiling, fucking. At the same time, it shows that we have cooked, smiled, fucked throughout the years not because it was easier for us than for anybody else, but because we did not have any other choice. Our faces have become distorted from so much smiling, our feelings have got lost from so much loving, our oversexualization has left us completely desexualized.”

Feminism Gender Inequality Nuclear Family Gender Oppression Emotional Labor Socialist Feminism Feminist Socialism

Book:Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Source: Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

“This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.”

Feminism Nonconformity Living Without Regrets Pope Joan

Book:Pope Joan

Source: Pope Joan

“White women will heap praise on my words calling for the destruction of the patriarchy, and then turn around and ask why I have to ‘be so divisive’ or say dismissively that I ‘sound like Al Sharpton’ when I dare bring up race.”

Feminism Racism Intersectionality Al Sharpton

Book:So You Want to Talk About Race

Source: So You Want to Talk About Race

“Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full of risk taking and possibilities. No matter how hard or easy life is; I will always find a way to enjoy myself; even in the mist of circumstances; because problems is a sense of adventure in sheep's clothing.”

Happiness Success Opportunity Existentialism

Author:Temitope Owosela

“Rose McGowan, one of Weinstein's earliest and most vociferous accusers, recalled being asked "in a soft NPR voice, 'What if what you're saying makes men uncomfortable?' Good. I've been uncomfortable my whole life. Welcome to our world of discomfort.”

Feminism Anger Feminist Good And Mad

Book:Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

Source: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

“The Barbies with their stick legs and rocket breasts were another problem Megan had to endure. She was supposed to spend hours dressing up or playing house with them, including the darker ones she was supposed to find more relatable. In a fit she'd once tried to commit Barbicide, defaced them with colored marker pens, chopped off hair, extracted eyes with scissors and de-limbed a few... The Barbie invasion proliferated on birthdays and at Christmas, relatives talked about incredible collection, as if she'd actually chosen to have them in her life.”

Funny Fiction Feminism Diverse Books

Book:Girl, Woman, Other

Source: Girl, Woman, Other

“There's not a stratum of the world that doesn't need girls. Maybe we're devalued precisely because we're so valuable. The world is too afraid of not bein able to obtain and control us to respect our true worth.”

Feminism Women Empowerment

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that will mature in the coming years to the smoky tones of a priestess or a queen -- a woman of great natural power.”

Voice Feminism Princess Femininity Queen Priestess Empress Pitch Zenobia Natural Power

Book:Daughter of Sand and Stone

Source: Daughter of Sand and Stone

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