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" If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. "

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" 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. "

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

" If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? "

" '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. "

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

" Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "

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

" 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. "

" Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. "

" What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. "

" The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people. "

" Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. "

" Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. "

" To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions. "

" 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. "

" Law and justice are not always the same. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet. "

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

" Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. "

" The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack. "