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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it…
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We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life…
— Jennifer Garner
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My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and…
— Carre Otis
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We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could…
— Diana DeGette
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None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the…
— Emmeline B. Wells
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Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really…
— Kim Gordon
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Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too.
— Steve Tisch
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I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half…
— Lois Wyse
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Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we…
— Jane Fonda
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For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.
— Nancy Pelosi
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We have to be women we want our daughters to be.
— Brené Brown
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Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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