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" Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. "

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

" For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. "

" You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there. "

" 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. "

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

" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. "

" Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. "

" There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. "

" Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. "

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

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

" Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. "

" In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. "

" 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 think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner. "

" I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. "

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

" I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "