Quotations

“Younger people’s revulsion toward old bodies is similar to the revulsion oppressors often have to the oppressed.”

Barbara MacDonald, writer

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

Audre Lorde, poet

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.””

Shirley Chisholm

“I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.”

Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate

“Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their oppressors.”

Evelyn Cunningham

“I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.”

Sarah Moore Grimké