“I’m grateful to learn about the nine outstanding feminists who share this honor; winners all of us, thanks to that one person or to the many who vote/s for us and on whose shoulders we stand.”

“My anthology started right where I began – with the powerhouse mujeres in my life and their love of homemade beans, rice, and tacos (in that delicious order).”

“Embracing the term feminist became a form of activism in itself, a demand that if I was to claim the title as I had been encouraged to do, then the movement needed to similarly claim me and my experiences of womanhood as well.”