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

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" Law and justice are not always the same. "

" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "

" 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. "

" Hope is a very unruly emotion. "

" If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal. "

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

" 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. "

" Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Logic is in the eye of the logician. "

" There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better. "

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

" The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving. "

" You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories. "

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

" 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. "