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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At some point in life the worlds beauty becomes enough. You dont need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. – Toni Morrison

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I dont think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. Its perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man. – Toni Morrison

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Family
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Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I dont mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. – Toni Morrison

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Women should be obscene and not heard. – Groucho Marx

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Some women cant say the word lesbian… even when their mouth is full of one. – Kate Clinton

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Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all. – Havelock Ellis

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Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans. – Steve Buyer

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