Um... Bette stole that quote. Angela Davis may have originated it, but Davis might have borrowed it from a Zora Hurston.
A quick google reveals that John Lennon and Yoko Ono Wrote a song... entitled... However, the first time I heard it was Angela Davis during a protest Interview. She might have been quoting the John Lennon song but in my mind it was before John Lennon and Yoko Ono went off on their own, around 1968 or so. It was also a popular t-shirt back in the late sixties.
How do I know? I was the youngest son and I had three older sisters who were all hippies, and we lived just outside of DC in Northern Virginia. The only benefit of having three older sisters that were hippies, was that by the time I grew into my teens, my parents were totally worn out from all the shenanigans those three put them through. And me, I was into camping and fishing and a few other things like pickup basketball games and wrenching on old Chevys... So I had it easy because as we all know, and my sisters all knew that women were the... Of the world.
I don’t agree because I think, as Glen Campbell, was put it “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle rules the world.”
Another good thing about having three older sisters that were hippies... Is that I’ve always been able to tell them to STFU without getting sued.