In order for women to obtain liberation, the struggles are going to have to be united on the basis of being women, not on the basis of being black wo… - Kathleen Neal Cleaver

The suggestion itself was never viewed objectively. The fact that the suggestion came from a woman gave it some lesser value. p.56

What we see today in the development of the women's liberation movement is the beginning of the entrance of woman into history, the woman beginning to speak for the woman. The woman beginning to understand, analyze the history of woman; the woman seeking the roots of the source of her oppression in order to be able to deal with this. p.58

I think it is important to place the women who fought oppression as Black Panthers within the longer tradition of freedom fighters like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida Wells-Barnett, who took on an entirely oppressive world and insisted that their race, their gender, and their humanity be respected all at the same time. par.12