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“In a time of alleged heightened "feminism" women of color and poor women are being left behind, and yet the trappings that uniquely target us, like poverty, incarceration, police brutality, and immigration, aren't often quantified as "feminist issues".

The reason there is so much dissidence between what a female CEO says you can do and the lived reality of what you can feasibly do is that this type feminism wasn't made for us. We need a movement that addresses the reality of women's lives rather than the aspiration of what they hope to be.”
― Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

“We all sew a few sequins on our stories to make them shine brighter.”
― Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids

“Maybe confusion is as queer as it gets.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

“If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”
― Ramona Quimby as written by Beverly Cleary, Ramona's World