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" If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal. "

Gloria Steinem

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. "

" The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't. "

" The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher. "

" Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. "

" 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. "

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

" I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. "

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

" In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "