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"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."
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"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist."
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"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
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"What a privilege it is to be an American!"
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"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."
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"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."
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"Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high."
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"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."
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"Political correctness' is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate."
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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
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"Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted."
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"There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer."
Being
"I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me."
People
"The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential."
Equality
"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
Students
"The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life."
Life
"If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics."
Rest
"Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?"
Feminism
"We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."
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"I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices."
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"Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert."
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