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Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you don't have these questions about yourself like middle-class women do.

Source: In Doleres Huerta: La Pasionaria of the Farmworkers, by Judith Coburn; in Ms. Nov 1976.
-- Dolores Huerta, (Apr 30 1930-____), US-Chicana activist, labor leader; She worked with Cesar Chavez, to unionize farm workers and to prevent takeover of the union by the Teamsters; VP United Farm Workers, 1977--.

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