Jacob

“Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Racism and sexism frequently converge—and the condition of white women workers is often tied to the oppressive predicament of women of color.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race, & Class

“If white women never resorted to domestic work unless they were certain of finding nothing better, Black women were trapped in these occupations until the advent of World War II. Even in the 1940s, there were street-corner markets in New York and other large cities—modern versions of slavery’s auction block—inviting white women to take their pick from the crowds of Black women seeking work.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race, & Class

“the more women’s domestic duties shrank under the impact of industrialization, the more rigid became the assertion that “woman’s place is in the home.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race, & Class