Double Discrimination Quotes

How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it!

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

The difficulty of being Afro-Latina, in general, is the lack of acceptance in both communities.

Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.