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

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" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "

" These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. "

" 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. "

" There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better. "

" A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. "

" 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. "

" If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. "

" Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees. "

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

" Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. "

" 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.' "

" There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. "

" We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. "

" You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories. "

" 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. "

" I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera. "

" Liberation does not come from outside. "

" 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 didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life. "

" I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.' "

" For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane. "

" The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question. "

" I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. "

" In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. "

" The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. "

" One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. "

" Hope is a very unruly emotion. "

" What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses. "

" Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life. "

" I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. "