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

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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. "

" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "

" 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. "

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

" The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. "

" Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. "

" What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories. "

" The surest way to be alone is to get married. "

" I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera. "

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

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

" Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. "

" These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. "

" Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "

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

" I can say whatever it is that I feel. "

" 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. "

" Women are liked better when they lose. "

" The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. "

" After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! "

" The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. "

" Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. "

" Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do. "

" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "

" What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man. "

" Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. "

" 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. "

" Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. "

" 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. "