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" A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. "
Gloria Steinem
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" 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. "
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" Liberation does not come from outside. "
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" 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. "
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" Work is valued by the social value of the worker. "
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" 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. "
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" A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. "
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" We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families. "
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" If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. "
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" The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. "
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" 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. "
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" Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. "
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" We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. "
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" What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. "
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" The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. "
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" 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. "
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" Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. "
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" Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. "
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" Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. "
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" A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. "
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" If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. "
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" Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. "
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" Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. "
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" 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. "
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" These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. "
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" If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse. "
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" The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher. "
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