On May 31, 2019, The Rumpus highlighted Dorothy Roberts and this foundational text in a curated reading list issue titled “What to Read When Women’s Bodies Are Under Attack.”
HOWEVER: AI says that “ The quote “no woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own body” actually belongs to birth control activist Margaret Sanger from her 1920 book Woman and the New Race.
However, it is frequently associated with legal scholar Dorothy Roberts because she prominently features, analyzes, and quotes Sanger’s words in her groundbreaking 1997 book, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Due to this, the quote is often misattributed to Roberts across various online quote databases.”
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