“There has never been a time when there has been a more crying need for the service of women in public life.”— Florence Ellinwood Allen
“In my ballets, the woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.”— George Balanchine
“The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth.”— Cherrie Moraga
“Feminist politics aims to overthrow the most ancient, most fundamental of all hierarchies.”— Charlotte Bunch
“A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.”— Dorothy Height
“Medicalization has turned natural life processes like childbirth into medical events controlled by male professionals.”— Ann Oakley
“The woman who has discovered that she has a mind is just as much a pioneer as the man who discovered that he had hands.”— Shana Alexander
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.”— Simone de Beauvoir
“When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being counterproductive.”— Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
“The woman is the loser in the patriarchal society, but she is also a collaborator.”— Elfriede Jelinek