“My child had shown me that love, marriage, and motherhood didn’t guarantee you anything—not companionship, not security, certainly not happiness. My young adulthood showed me that my being smart, hardworking, spiritual, and purehearted didn’t exempt me from any of the insults to which my biosocial status entitled me: a person who is female, black, and working-class will be injured by sexism, racism, classism no matter what she does.”

− Judy Dothard Simmons −