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I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
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I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.
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I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till then what love I bore to thee.
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I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
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I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
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I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
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I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.
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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
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I'm a woman who was raised to believe that you are not complete unless you have a man. Well, in some ways it's true. I am a feminist to a point. But I'm not going to deny the fact that I love to be with men.
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I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
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I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
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I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.
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I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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