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" I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives. "

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" The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. "

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

" The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what. "

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

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

" 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. "

" What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that. "

" 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. "

" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "

" A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. "

" We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "

" 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. "

" I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. "

" There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. "

" When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. "

" There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. "

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

" There's no shortage of great young activists. "

" I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. "

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" Women are liked better when they lose. "

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

" The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. "

" The surest way to be alone is to get married. "

" A bad facelift is like a bad toupee. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. "