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Quote by Toni Morrison
I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrou

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. – Toni Morrison

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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. – Toni Morrison

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power
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Its been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because its about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion. – Toni Morrison

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Religion
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison

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All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. – Megan Fox

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Women are beautiful, and yummy. – A.C. Van Cherub, c.1987

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Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all. – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. – Audre Lorde

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When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay and relax for a while before trying to get back up. – Terri Guillemets

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Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots. – Crystal Eastman

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