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Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Women in general, and African American women in particular, are still separated by a veil, albeit an invisible one. As long as women are…

— Patricia Dixon

“And having a cleaner is nothing to do with feminism. If a middle-class woman is engaging in anti-feminist activity by hiring a woman to…

— Caitlin Moran

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts…

— Robin DiAngelo

The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the…

— Friedrich Engels

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy,…

— Nawal El Saadawi

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

— Nawal El Saadawi

What he means by this is that instead of saying you'll "try", you need to "do". And as we let our light shine, we…

— Nelson Mandela

Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there!…

— Carolyn Cassady

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

— Maya Angelou