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" I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera. "

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" The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. "

" I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon. "

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" A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. "

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" America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. "

" 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. "

" Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. "

" What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses. "

" 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. "

" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "

" For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. "

" 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. "

" As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. "

" Hope is a very unruly emotion. "

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

" Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. "

" The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. "

" I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. "

" The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. "

" Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life. "

" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "