My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Catharine R. Stimpson is a feminist scholar, University Professor of Law, professor of English, and former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University.
