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

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" The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators. "

" What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories. "

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

" 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. "

" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. "

" 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. "

" We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys. "

" Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. "

" The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. "

" The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what. "

" 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. "

" The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. "

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

" Work is valued by the social value of the worker. "

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

" We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. "

" You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free. "

" Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. "

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

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

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

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

" I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives. "

" The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. "

" 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. "

" Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do. "

" We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "

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