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“Phrases like “All you do is cry,” “You are too sensitive,” or “Get over it” shut down emotional expression and teach children to mistrust their inner experiences. Rather than learning to identify feelings like sadness”
― Zelina Chinwoh, Family is Not All You Need: A Self-Help Guide to Coping with Narcissistic Family Members and Dysfunctional Home Environments

“Long before a slightly younger generation of women coined the phrase “the personal is political,” Betty Friedan used that concept”
― Stephanie Coontz, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s

“Few curricula taught in elementary and secondary schools were designed with Black girls in mind, especially those who are living in racially isolated, high-poverty areas. If the curriculum being taught does not even consider the unique needs and experiences of Black girls seeking to climb out of poverty and the ghetto, as is most often the case, do they really have equal access to education? If schools are teaching curricula that have”
― Monique W. Morris, Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

“If we want to raise an empowered next generation of Black and Brown girls who can love themselves”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot