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

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" Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A bad facelift is like a bad toupee. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys. "

" There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. "

" The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators. "

" Hope is a very unruly emotion. "

" 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. "

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

" Logic is in the eye of the logician. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. "

" 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. "

" Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. "

" If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. "

" 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. "

" The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. "

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