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"A notoriously Southern phenomenon now spread like honey over everything. Ask the time and folks just looked up at the sky, mumbling "quarter till," because gone was the appraiser of hours into wages."

Whewwwww👀🔥

In Sister Outside, Audre Lorde wrote:
"As women we have been taught either to ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion, rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation."

"The Sunday magazine This Week advised its female readera; a college education 'skyrockets your chances of becoming an old maid.'

Advertisers reversed their wartime message - that women could work + enjoy a family life - claimed now that women must choose, + choose only home."

"Then as now, late-Victorian religious + political leaders accused women who postponed childbearing of triggering a 'race suicide' that endangered (white) America's future; they were, in the words of president Theodore Roosevelt, 'criminals against the race' + 'objects of contemptuous abhorrence by healthy people.' Married women who demanded rights were charged, then as now, with creating a 'crisis of the family.'"

"This is the goal of a white supremacist social order: to mark Black bodies as useless, while simultaneously exploiting them for labor, culture, and energy."

Oiling the fence at sunset time is the perfect time to listen to audiobooks.

After conquering a particularly scary and challenging physical test:
"My god...what else can I do?"
Chills.

A tasty little morsel of a long weekend romance!

Holy shit.

"People don't become perfect when they become parents; if anything, parenthood gives us more chances to screw things up - just with higher stakes."