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

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" 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 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? "

" 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. "

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

" Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "

" We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. "

" Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "

" Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot. "

" Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. "

" Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees. "

" The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends. "

" The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question. "

" 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. "

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

" Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. "

" 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. "

" God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. "

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

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

" Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. "

" 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. "

" For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane. "

" 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. "