Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
From Gloria Steinem
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.
All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.
Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children.
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