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

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" Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. "

" The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. "

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

" In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. "

" The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question. "

" All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. "

" 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. "

" Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it. "

" Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. "

" Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. "

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

" Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. "

" It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves. "

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

" 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?' "

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

" Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. "

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

" Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body. "

" Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. "

" If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. "

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

" The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. "

" What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. "

" There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. "

" 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. "

" Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. "