Famous Quotes | ... there is no way of measuring...

... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman architect who might have reinvented our cities sits barely literate in a semilegal sweatshop on the Texas- Mexican border, when women who should be founding colleges must work their entire lives as domestics ... - Adrienne Rich
Attribution: Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet, essayist, and feminist. Blood, Bread and Poetry, ch. 12 (1986). From a lecture given at Scripps College in Claremont, California, on February 15, 1984: the 164th anniversary of Susan B. Anthony’s birthday (1820-1906).

Categories: And Feminist, Essayist, Oppression, Power, Subordination Of Women

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