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" A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. "

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" What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "

" After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! "

" Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. "

" Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. "

" In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. "

" Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for. "

" Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. "

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

" The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. "

" The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. "

" The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. "

" Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body. "

" Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby. "

" Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. "

" I can say whatever it is that I feel. "

" 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. "

" Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. "

" To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions. "

" There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. "

" As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. "

" It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. "

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" The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators. "

" I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. "

" The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people. "

" Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. "

" If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit. "

" If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? "