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" Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell. "

" Feminism is experiential; it's comparing notes. And when those stories get told, and you realize it's not just you - it's bigger - there's just a huge sigh of relief. Otherwise, you think you're crazy. "

" Feminism is for all women and girls, not a privileged few or one ethnicity, religion, age, sexual preference, ability, region or hemisphere. "

" Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. "

" I am an artist and a political being as well. "

" I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. "

" In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. "

" It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom. "

" Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. "

" Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can. "

" Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups. "

" Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. "

" Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. "

" Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers. "

" Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undebatable! But it's not so simple: women are socialised to avoid conflict; when we do differ, especially on politics and in public, it's still tediously labelled a 'catfight.' "

" There's something contagious about demanding freedom. "

" The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. "

" The young women waking up to feminism now already wake up to more consciousness than my generation had. Even just simple things like equal pay - before you went, in my generation, and asked for a raise, you went through nausea and your palms sweating. "

" We Americans forget or rewrite even our recent history, and accomplishments of any group not pale and male have tended to get downplayed or erased - one reason why Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and I founded the Women's Media Center: to make women visible and powerful in media. "

" We are the women men warned us about. "

" We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. "

" We're not inherently anything but human. "

" White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today. "

" Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. "

" Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that. "

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