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" Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't. "

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" We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families. "

" What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. "

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

" Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. "

" The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot. "

" 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. "

" Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture. "

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

" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "

" Liberation does not come from outside. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. "

" 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. "