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" Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. "

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

" If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. "

" Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys. "

" Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. "

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

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

" This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Hope is a very unruly emotion. "

" 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. "

" I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. "

" Law and justice are not always the same. "

" If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. "

" 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. "

" I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. "

" A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. "

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

" Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. "

" 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. "

" Liberation does not come from outside. "

" Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. "

" 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. "

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

" When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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