When Everything Changed Quotes

“[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.”
― Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

“How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker”
― Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

“Forty percent of the new dental school graduates were women, although as late as 1970 the dean of the University of Texas dental school had insisted on admitting no more than two women in every class of a hundred because “girls aren’t strong enough to pull teeth.”
― Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

“Feminist' simply means someone who supports equal rights and opportunities for women. But there have been very few periods in American history when it didn't wind up being linked to images of cranky man-haters in unfashionable footwear.”
― Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present