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" Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. "
Gloria Steinem
Life
Small
People
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" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. "
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" Law and justice are not always the same. "
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" Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. "
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" Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism. "
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" Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. "
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" A bad facelift is like a bad toupee. "
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" The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. "
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Internet
" I can say whatever it is that I feel. "
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I Can
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" All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. "
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" The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack. "
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Important
Attack
" The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. "
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First
Politics
" Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. "
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You
Way
" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "
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Right
Nothing
Government
" Women are liked better when they lose. "
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Women Are
Better
Lose
" 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? "
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Month
Say
Long
" I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon. "
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Thought
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She
" Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. "
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Women
Nothing
" We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. "
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Support
Work
Men
" Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. "
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Father
Mother
Children
" I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.' "
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Up
Road
Saying
" The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. "
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Skin
Stop
" We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. "
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Never
" Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie. "
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" 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. "
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Equal
You
" 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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" The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party. "
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Rights
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" Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "
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Dreams
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