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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice. "

" Women are liked better when they lose. "

" There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. "

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

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

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

" A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. "

" Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby. "

" The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. "

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

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" Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "

" There's no shortage of great young activists. "

" Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. "

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

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" Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. "

" People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet. "

" 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. "

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

" It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. "

" I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.' "

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" 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. "

" A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. "

" America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. "

" Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. "

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

" Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. "

" 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. "