Black Quote by Gail Collins

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

— Bell Hooks

In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was…

— Gail Collins

There's a lot of women that wanted no part of this feminist movement way back in the late sixties. The modern era can be…

— Rush Limbaugh

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and…

— Bell Hooks

Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were…

— Gloria Steinem

I think women were gradually becoming more independent - the feminist movement of the Sixties didn't just spring out of nowhere.

— Chris Chibnall

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about…

— Bell Hooks

The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.

— Rebecca Traister

Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being…

— Steve Coogan

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

— Grace Paley

For generations, Black women have been at the very center of social change. Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from abolition, to…

— Laphonza Butler

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took…

— Pauley Perrette