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" I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad. "

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" Women are liked better when they lose. "

" 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. "

" The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. "

" Liberation does not come from outside. "

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

" A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. "

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

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

" Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for. "

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

" Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way. "

" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "

" God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. "

" 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.' "

" When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me. "

" 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. "

" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "

" Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. "

" Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. "

" Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. "

" If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit. "

" 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. "

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

" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "

" Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie. "

" No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. "

" I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. "

" The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. "

" The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. "

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