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" Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. "

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

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" If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. "

" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. "

" 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. "

" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "

" These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. "

" Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. "

" 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? "

" I am not patient. "

" A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. "

" Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. "

" We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. "

" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "

" 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. "

" Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real. "

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