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" Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. "

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" 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. "

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

" Liberation does not come from outside. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture. "

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

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" 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. "

" It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves. "

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" 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. "

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