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Minorty women could fill volumes with examples of put-downs, put-ons, and out-and-out racism shown to them by the leadership of the [women's] movement.

— Martha P. Cotera Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis (1980)

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It is always easier to battle strangers than one's family.

Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis (1980)

We can choose to repeat ancestral practices or to break with them.

La Nueva Hispana e Hispanidad" [The New Hispanic Woman and Hispanicity (1979)

Media, communication, and group action are urgently needed if we're going to control our lives in the Eighties and beyond.

La Nueva Hispana e Hispanidad" [The New Hispanic Woman and Hispanicity (1979)

One of the first Chicanas to come into contact with the suffragist movements in the 1880s was Lucy Gonzalez Parsons, a Chicana socialist labor organizer.

Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis (1980)

Hispanas and Hispanos together must confront the subject of equal rights. No one else is going to come in and resolve the situation for us.

La Nueva Hispana e Hispanidad" [The New Hispanic Woman and Hispanicity (1979)

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