"The women's movement was very diverse, but the more public positions articulated by the movement didn't include the e…"

"A watershed in my life was getting divorced in Puerto Rico—that was my second marriage—and leaving Puerto Rico to bec…"

"My mother was a schoolteacher who fought for reforms such as the right to teach in Spanish, the vernacular,” she expl…"

"In Puerto Rico, racism was subtle. There wasn't the kind of separatist racism like in the US. I wasn't used to this."

"I saw that anybody who could afford an abortion could get a perfectly fine one. It would be written up as an appendec…"

"What brought me to the women's movement was the women's health movement. The cultural elements of feminism didn't res…"

"Women brought a feminist perspective to health issues affecting women. They examined power relationships among indivi…"

"The only way to effect change was for more women to go into the professions and instill a different perspective—a mor…"

"We got a lot of flack from White women who had private doctors and wanted to be sterilized,” she said. “They had been…"

"We still have a system that excludes, underserves, and even misserves all too many people. The latest census tells us…"