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We have come to understand that white women must work on their racism with each other, that such education is not the burden of women of color.

— Evelyn Torton Beck Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1982)

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To be born a Jew is to be part of a unified culture that is also extremely diverse.

Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1982)

Isn't it vital for us to make connections between oppressions? To see in what ways anti-Semitism, racism, and other forms of oppression are different and alike?

Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1982)

Is it not anti-Semitic for women to refuse to work with Israeli feminists solely because of their nationality, especially since many of these Israeli women are courageously taking stances against their government?

Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1982)

Probably the single most insistent theme in this book, repeated with variation and from many different angles and perspectives, directed at both non-Jewish lesbians and non-lesbian Jews, is the desire of the contributors to be "all of who we are."

Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1982)

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