Abstract Quote by Irena Klepfisz

Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

In the women's world, as well as in the men's world, there exists the class law and the class struggle, and it appears as…

— Clara Zetkin

Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to…

— Nadezhda Krupskaya

women, when describing their roles in their organizations, usually referred to themselves as being in the middle of things. Not at the top, but…

— Sally Helgesen

Feminism is being broken open, to welcome more people than just white women of a certain class.

— Phoebe Robinson

“Thousands of other future feminists lived in middle-class homes, growing up to be bright, popular, and good. Everything appeared to promise them a future…

— Sara M. Evans

Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and…

— E. O. Wilson

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks,…

— Lillie Devereux Blake

The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on…

— Camille Paglia

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and…

— Adrienne Rich