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" Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. "

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" I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie. "

" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "

" You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free. "

" The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. "

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

" We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "

" Work is valued by the social value of the worker. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. "

" I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. "

" All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. "

" '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. "

" Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. "

" If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. "

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

" I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. "

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

" When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. "

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

" I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. "

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" The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. "

" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "

" When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me. "