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

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

" Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.' "

" The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party. "

" 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. "

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

" Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life. "

" I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon. "

" 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. "

" Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?' "

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

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

" Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. "

" As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot. "

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

" If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. "

" A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. "

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

" 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. "

" The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people. "

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

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

" We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. "