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" Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. "
Gloria Steinem
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" What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that. "
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" As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot. "
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" There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. "
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" Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way. "
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" 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. "
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" Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.' "
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" When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. "
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" A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. "
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" You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories. "
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" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "
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" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "
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" Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. "
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" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "
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" 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. "
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" Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. "
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" There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. "
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" I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. "
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" Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. "
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" There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. "
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" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "
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" Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful. "
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" It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves. "
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" The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. "
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" If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. "
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