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It was my experience in the Angela Davis trial that propelled me into a study of Afro-American women's history and, ultimately, into women's studies.

— Bettina Aptheker Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982)

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The formation of a lesbian (and gay) identity, divested of Freudian origin, is in process. (p 119)

Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989)

We have to stop thinking in oppositional categories. We have to stop thinking that one line is "correct" and that others must be "won over" to it, while those who disagree are "defeated." (p 252)

Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989)

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