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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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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. – Toni Morrison

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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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Womens liberation is just a lot of foolishness. Its men who are discriminated against. They cant bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. – Golda Meir

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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. – Marya Mannes

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