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“You are the door, not the one who walks through it.”

The story about Shirley Chisholm & how a (male) congressman would SPIT (!!) in his handkerchief every time she walked by, so she bought a handkerchief and when he did it she stood in front of him and spit in her handkerchief 🤣🤣🤣 ICONIC. I really love this audio book and all the different stories.

Im loving listening to this audiobook. It’s a bunch of oral stories from women through the 60s-70s and their experiences with accessing healthcare and the violent experiences of back ally abortions, their experiences with work like not being able to be a flight attendant after you marry, and Bobbi Gibb’s experience running the Boston marathon.

On police: “The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear–civilization’s fear of nature, men’s fear of women, power’s fear of powerlessness.”