"Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us it is also about me and you. Just the two of us."
-Toni Morrison
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"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.“
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"I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
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"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."
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"It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion."
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"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
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"The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible."
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"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure."
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