Famous quotes containing the words white and/or women:
“I am so tired of taking to others
translating my life for the deaf, the blind,
the I really want to know what your life is like without giving up any of my privileges
to live it white women
the I want to live my white life with Third World womens style and keep my skin
class privileges dykes”
—Lorraine Bethel, African American lesbian feminist poet. What Chou Mean We, White Girl? Lines 49-54 (1979)
“Women who assume authority are unnatural. Unnatural women are lesbians. Therefore all the leaders of the womens movement were presumed to be lesbians.”
—Jane OReilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 8 (1980)