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“As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using…

— Tom Perrotta

“As I watched Jamila I thought what a terrific person she'd become. She was low today, and she was often scornful of me anyway,…

— Hanif Kureishi

“...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before…

— Chinua Achebe

“Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“She was one of the freest people in the world. A middle-class white woman in America, she was the benefactor of a lifetime of…

— M.K. Williams

“She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and…

— Christine E. Schulze

“Something stirred inside her, some urge to plunge into the new white world and see what it had to offer. It was like she’d…

— Anne Ursu

“In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end…

— H.G. Wells

“This woman was full of so much ignorance it was almost like she wanted to stay that way. She saw what she wanted, believed…

— Marissa Meyer

What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so…

— Susan B. Anthony

“She never learned to value those things that white people valued. The greatest pride of the Kiowa was to do without, to make use…

— Paulette Jiles

“She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate…

— Elizabeth Gilbert