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" In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. "
Gloria Steinem
Group
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" Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. "
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" Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. "
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" Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. "
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" After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! "
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" God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. "
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" 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. "
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" What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories. "
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" Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. "
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" One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. "
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" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "
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" 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. "
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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.' "
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" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "
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" Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. "
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" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "
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