Adult Quote by Gloria Steinem

“First off, as has been well stated by many Indigenous Feminists before us, the idea of gender equality did not come from the suffragettes…

— Erin Konsmo

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

— Karen DeCrow

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the…

— Manisha Sinha

The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is…

— Emily Thornberry

Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in…

— Anthea Butler

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a…

— Gail Collins

“Feminist efforts to grant women social equality with men of their class neatly coincided with white supremacist capitalist patriarchal fears that white power would…

— bell hooks

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Blacks complained that most leaders were white, which was true. Feminists complained that most all were men, which was also true. Soon black women…

— Mark Lilla

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation…

— Carrie Chapman Catt