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" I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie. "

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

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

" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. "

" Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. "

" 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. "

" Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do. "

" Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. "

" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "

" 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. "

" If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse. "

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

" When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. "

" Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. "

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

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

" Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. "

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

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

" The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. "

" What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man. "

" We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families. "

" 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. "