Quotes

I loved everybody I worked with … But I realized I wasn't part of the boy's club. [They] talked about budget … upcoming issues … [or] hirings, and I wasn't part of those conversations. [And in] the Faculty Women's Network, as I sat there and listened to other people, I realized this is happening all over the university [not just to me]. And sexual harassment was happening. People were sharing [but saying], "I don't want to get in trouble.”

[PCOSW] would address issues that crossed over borders, things that crossed the line. And faculty salaries were one of the things that kept coming up. But how do you address salary issues? It's really hard, because what happens in Engineering is very different from what happens in the Psychology Department … there are different pay scales in different parts of the country … it was one of those things that kept getting pushed down to the bottom of the pile, partly because we didn't know how to address it.

~ Beth Rietveld

Because we have been left in this nameless zone, black women have been given the opportunity to define themselves.

I came to a state we all know … sometimes [doesn’t] understand different lived experiences, only because of the isolation of the state and the history of the state. But here is where I was most challenged to learn how to grow, learn how to have patience, [and] continue to strive with persistence for what is good and what is right. 

~ Allison Davis-White Eyes