A Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois on motherhood, world, and worship

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963)
Source: Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
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