“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership

of that freed self was another.”

- Toni Morrison, Beloved

Artwork displayed at the 2012 Women’s Read-In

“The arts are the rainforests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when

freedom is in danger.”

- June Wayne

American printmaker, tapestry designer,

painter, and educator

Participants in the 2012 Women’s Read-In singing and playing

musical instruments

“In human life, art may arise from almost any

activity, and once it does so, it is launched

on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance [...]”

- Susanne Langer (1895-1985), US

educator & philosopher

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Susanne_Langer/

Art against the odds: from slave quilts to prison

paintingsby Susan Goldman Rubin

Rubin defines "outsider artists" as "children and adults who felt

compelled to make different kinds of art despite living under the most

awful conditions." In this unique overview, she profiles artists, who often have little or no training, and have suffered incarceration, war, racism, poverty, or mental illness

while working.

King Library, Ground Floor, IMCN6505.5 .O87 R83 2004

“Children, if you are tired, keep going; if you are

scared, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if

you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”

- Harriet Tubman

c. 1820-1913, American abolitionist

Harriet Tubman. In Ratcliffe, S.(Ed.), Oxford Essential Quotations. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 27 Feb. 2014, from http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191735240.001.0001/q-oro-00011037.

“Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in

pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t

believe you can stand for freedom for one group of

people and deny it to others.”

“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you

earn it and win it in every generation.”

- Coretta Scott King, American author, activist,

and civil rights leaderhttp://www.theotherpages.org/quote/quote-27kl.html

FREE Women’s Read-In Giveaways!

“I would like to be known as a person who is

concerned about freedom and equality and justice

and prosperity for all people.”

“Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I

was not alone. There were many others who

felt the same way.”

-Rosa Parks (1913-2005), US black civil rights

leaderhttp://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Rosa_Parks/

Maria W. Stewart was the first American woman to

speak to a mixed audience of men, women, whites and

blacks, and the first African-American woman to lecture about women’s rights and make public anti-slavery

speeches.

“… there are no chains so galling as the chains of

ignorance [...]”

http://quotes.dictionary.com/author/Maria+Stewart

Freedom Summer 1964 Memorial

Struggle for Women’s Rights and Civil Rights Linked

“[...] At the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840,

Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were refused seats on the floor by male abolitionists because they

were women.”

“As a result, Stanton and Mott vowed to hold a convention on women's rights, which they hosted in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. At the convention, delegates adopted a "Declaration of

Sentiments," a document modeled on the Declaration of Independence. It was signed by 68 women and 32 men,

including African-American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-yeakel/march-on-washington_b_3769211.html

Women in the trees: U.S. women’s short

stories about battering and resistance, 1839-

1994edited by Susan

Koppelman

King Library (2nd floor) PS648.A32 W66 1996

Walk myself home: an anthology to end violence against

women by Andrea Routley

King Library (2nd floor) PR9194.52.W66 W355

2010

FREE Women’s Read-In Giveaways!

What’s a nice girl like you doing in a

relationship like this?: Women in abusive

relationshipsedited by Kay Marie

Porterfield

King Library (2nd floor) PS509.W6 W45 1992

Getting out: life stories of women who left

abusive menby Ann Goetting

King Library (2nd floor) HV6626.2 .G65 1999

Check out the Women’s Read-In

page on our Diversity Guide

for more information and resources!

http://libguides.lib.miamioh.edu/diversity