"Apparently all y'all are white — that's crazy,” actress Rosario Dawson told the crowd as she introduced Sanders. "I must be having issues with my eyes. No, the reality is when they're talking about that stuff, they're trying to divide us."



Female supporters have also taken issue with media portrayals, including Gloria Steinem’s suggestion that they only support Sanders because men do. Madeleine Albright’s suggestion that they should support Clinton because she is a woman is equally offensive.



"To suggest that young women are boy-crazy automatons who base their political decisions on "uncontrollable lady feelz" is lazy at best and deeply misogynistic at worst," Rae Paoletta, Revelist's news and identity reporter, wrote in February.



We've decided to let the Sanders supporters speak for themselves. Below, 11 women tell us, in their own words, why they’re voting for Bern:

