“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power, You just take it.”

— Roseanne Barr

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/26434-the-thing-women-have-yet-to-learn-is-nobody-gives
cited in; Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.

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