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" Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. "

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

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

" Work is valued by the social value of the worker. "

" 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. "

" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "

" Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. "

" When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. "

" I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. "

" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "

" Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. "

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

" I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. "

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

" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "

" Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. "

" Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. "

" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "

" I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. "

" The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't. "

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

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

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" We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. "