Patricia J. Williams Quotes

#1. To speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

Patricia J. Williams

#2. The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

Patricia J. Williams

#3. Witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

Patricia J. Williams

#4. Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology.

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#5. The very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

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#6. We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

Patricia J. Williams