The words of the late, great Shirley Chisholm seem appropriate here.
"I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black," she told The Associated Press in December 1982, shortly before she left Washington to teach at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. "When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men."
What Female Voices Do You Listen To?
Date Edited: 26 Jan 2005 06:40:02 AM
"I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black," she told The Associated Press in December 1982, shortly before she left Washington to teach at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. "When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men."
-January 3, 2005, NY Times Obituary
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