Western culture Quote by Peggy Phelan

“Many white women wanted to talk about “unity,” but without acknowledging our privilege; that erodes trust and then it all falls apart.”

— The Women's March Organizers

“We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white women to…

— bell hooks

“Seek not equality with either white or any other nation open your eyes and see behind their pretended pleasure and power is only impotence…

— Sun Ra

“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

“Waking and sleeping she had demanded to know where she belonged in a white man's world, and how and where she should invest her…

— John Le Carre

“She didn’t know that Indian women had more power and authority than white women, a fact detailed in captivity stories.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“It is particularly important for white Americans to approach this subject matter with the right goals in mind. Our goal must be sight, transformation,…

— Daniel Hill

“Requiring women to cover their faces in public, at least with paint, is now an Ameriacan cultural norm.”

— Lisa Bloom

“But in the world I was raised in, amid the countless media images I took in as a girl, I got this crazy notion…

— Diane Guerrero

“end up defending cultures that involve corruption, slavery and the submission of women and the weaker members of society. I”

— Fernando Ballano Gonzalo

“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

“We in the West are accustomed to thinking that humans are all basically the same underneath our different cultural clothing, that the concerns the…

— Philip Cushman