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" Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life. "

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" Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot. "

" If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. "

" I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Women's progress has been a collective effort. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? "

" Logic is in the eye of the logician. "

" I am not patient. "

" 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. "

" In Sweden, both parents take care of the children. "

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

" 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 question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question. "

" Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. "

" A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "

" To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions. "

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

" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "