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I'm rereading this again this year. Found this line again. "racism, like other forms of oppression, is not only a personal ideology based on racial prejudice, but a system involving cultural messages and institutional policies and practices..."

Women worldwide ages 15 to 44 are more likely to die or be maimed because of male violence then because of cancer malaria war and traffic accidents combined

Ah! Then this!! "It's the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world."

Already I know I'm going to be quoting this for years to come. "The out and out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women whether or not they know what they're talking about.…."