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“Black women had in fact already made some of the very points for which Friedan was being hailed.” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
“This Book is Dedicated to Black Girls Everywhere. You are Powerful. You are Beautiful. You are Loved.” — Daniel José Older Copy Share Image
“She had never been afraid to be Black in a White world, and she had sure taken a lot of abuse because of it.” — Sandra Kitt Copy Share Image
“The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ... No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual,… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
“The Black Woman is amazingly strong, truly powerful, deeply visionary, has incredible worth and much love and goodness within that she is willing to… — Rebecca Gordon Copy Share Image
“We are strong Black Women. We may not want to be, but when life calls, we got no choice” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Andrea Dworkin famously commented that “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.” In” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's the dropping… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,” — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“In his 1873 Sex in Education; or A Fair Chance for the Girls, Harvard professor Edward Clarke argued that the female brain, if engaged… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
In 2013, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 64 percent of mothers with children under six worked. — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape,… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“As a Black Woman, I define self-care as the ability to safely and comfortably exhale.” — Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant Copy Share Image
When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I talk about a lot is how black women are so often referred to as feisty or sassy or aggressive or difficult just for… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
“She’s an original! She doesn’t need to compete, copy, or envy other women. The confidence that’s within her won’t allow her to stoop that… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image