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" I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure. "

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" The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it. "

" Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men. "

" In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men. "

" Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men. "

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" Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers. "

" The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal. "

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" The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. "

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