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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 15 OF 15 Thursday, March 30, 2023

"Certainly, for black women, our struggle has not been to emerge from silence into speech but to change the nature and direction of our speech, to make a speech that compels listeners, one that is heard." - bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 14 OF 15 Thursday, March 30, 2023

"We have to teach, tell, and show Black girls that they are beautiful ... that there is no standard of beauty, only defining it. And we, Black girls, define beauty, too. Our hair, shade, shape, and features are beautiful. We set trends, and the world follows." - D.B. Mays, Black Lives, Lines, and Lyrics

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 11 OF 12 Friday, March 24, 2023

"Black women have long been the backbone of our political progressive past: the strategists and protesters and organizers and volunteers, the women who've gotten out the vote and licked the envelopes, pioneered the thinking that led to the revolutions. Yet they've been only barely represented in leadership of the political parties they've bolstered, their policy priorities have often gone unaddressed and unrecognized; their participation has long been taken for granted. And when white women have caught up to where black women have been for a long time, the work of the black women has often been appropriated, ignored, and uncredited by those with greater economic, cultural, and racial advantage." - Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 10 OF 12 Friday, March 24, 2023

"Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned with the quality of their lives or even their lives at all. When politicians and salespeople start being kind to black women, seeking them out, offering them largesse, the women accept the soft voices, the simpering statements, the often idle promises, because those are likely to be the only flattering behavior directed to them that day. Behind the women's eyes, however, there is a wisdom that does not pretend to be unaware; nor does it permit gullibility." - Maya Angelou, A Song Flung Up To Heaven

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 9 OF 9 Friday, March 17, 2023

"Because, you know, a colored woman with class is still an exceptional creature; and a colored woman with class, style, poetry, taste, elegance, repartee, and haute cuisine is an almost nonexistent species." - Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 6 OF 6 Wednesday, March 8, 2023

"Answer me. Where does a Black woman go when she is me, trailed by myths that this country has invented about her? Where to go to, when all of you have been there already, and claimed the turf as your own and you watch the rest of us shipwrecked by circumstance and color, looking. Waiting. Needing." - Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 5 OF 6 Wednesday, March 8, 2023

"Women's history should not be a shallow hunt for heroines." - Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 2 OF 3 Wednesday, March 1, 2023

"While we are all forced to participate in the games of office politics; it is a very defeatist position for a Black woman. Many would argue that White men in America write the rules, manage the courses, and call all the plays. They are trusted to lead organizations and are in key positions to make positive change. I believe that at this moment in time, the onus shouldn't be placed on the underdogs to pull themselves up. The onus is on White men in power to create work environments that are both inclusive and sustainable for marginalized people." - Talisa Lavarry, Confessions From Your Token Black Colleague: True Stories & Candid Conversations About Equity & Inclusion In The Workplace

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 1 OF 3 Wednesday, March 1, 2023

"When feminist rhetoric is rooted in biases like racism, ableism, transmisogyny, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia, it automatically works against marginalized women and against any concept of solidarity. It's not enough to know that other women with different experiences exist; you must also understand that they have their own feminism formed by that experience. Whether it's an argument that women who wear the hijab must be 'saved' from it, or reproductive-justice arguments that paint having a disabled baby as the worst possible outcome, the reality is that feminism can be marginalizing. If a liberation movement's own representatives are engaging with each other oppressively, then what progress can the movement make without fixing that internal problem?" - Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 13 OF 15 Thursday, March 30, 2023

"No matter what you're having, you can toast knowing that women had a part in its history. Saying that some types of alcohol are better, more noble, more masculine to drink than others is just outright silly...All drinks are girly drinks." - Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 8 OF 9 Friday, March 17, 2023

"We must never confuse professionalism with expertise. Expertise is something to work for and to share; professionalism is—by definition—elitist and exclusive, sexist, racist, and classist." - Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 7 OF 9 Friday, March 17, 2023

"Elizabeth Cady read the nation's great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women?” - Joy Hakim, From Colonies to Country 1735-1791

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WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH QUOTE 3 OF 3 Wednesday, March 1, 2023

"On some level, if not intellectual then animal, there has always been an understanding of the power of women's anger: that as an oppressed majority in the United States, women have long had within them the potential to rise up in fury, to take over a country in which they've never really been offered their fair or representative stake. Perhaps the reason that women's anger is so broadly denigrated—treated as so ugly, so alienating, and so irrational—is because we have known all along that with it came the explosive power to upturn the very systems that have sought to contain it. What becomes clear, when we look to the past with an eye to the future, is that the discouragement of women's anger—via silencing, erasure, and repression—stems from the correct understanding of those in power that in the fury of women lies the power to change the world." - Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

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