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

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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. "

" 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? "

" Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture. "

" 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. "

" There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. "

" 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. "

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

" I can say whatever it is that I feel. "

" The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. "

" If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal. "

" Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism. "

" I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do. "

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

" The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party. "

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

" Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. "

" 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'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. "

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" Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

" You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there. "

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

" 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. "

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

" A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. "

" If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. "

" I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life. "

" Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. "