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" A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. "

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" The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. "

" Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. "

" In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. "

" I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.' "

" What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man. "

" When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. "

" Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. "

" Logic is in the eye of the logician. "

" Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. "

" Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "

" Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. "

" Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice. "

" Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot. "

" People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet. "

" I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. "

" Hope is a very unruly emotion. "

" No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. "

" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "

" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "

" The surest way to be alone is to get married. "

" Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. "

" I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad. "

" The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack. "

" The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what. "

" Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. "

" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "

" Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it. "

" We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. "

" Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture. "