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Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.

— Anna Holmes

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

— Robin DiAngelo

“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.

— William Kristol

“Although white women as a group lost the most in welfare reform, they got the one bone that's always been thrown to white working-…

— Laura Briggs

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

— Bell Hooks

Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people…

— Barbara Smith

I think we have to remember that the white patriarchal system actually benefits white women in a lot of the ways and they're attached…

— Kirsten Powers

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

I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we…

— Rachel Dolezal

Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and…

— Inga Muscio