Carolina QuotesWe have to stop thinking in oppositional categories. We have to stop thinking that one line is "correct" and that others must be "won over" to it, while those who disagree are "defeated." (p 252)
Bettina Aptheker Carolinian
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- Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989)
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- 1989
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