“Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.” Has BeensGirlBlackCloudsGrandmotherRainbowMy GrandmotherSexuallyBarefootArkansasBlack Girl Author:Maya Angelou
“As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.” YearsMadeGirlIssuesImpressionGrandmotherLastingMy GrandmotherLasting Impressions Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.” ThinkingFeelsMindBookSoulBodyMotherHumanityGirlFatherLeftGrowsFreedomPiecesGenerationsOne ThingFashionTypeDevelopmentDaughterTraditionPatternsSillyGrandmotherArtificialPlatesClayLoadedSentimentalityProprietyRestrainingMother And Grandmother Book:History of woman suffrage Source: History of woman suffrage
“Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantStillsYoungMotherGirlPoorMillionsKnow HowPercentSlaveFeministSexyGrandmotherYoung WomenPoorestMother And Grandmother Author:Isabel Allende