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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The surest way to be alone is to get married. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. "

" We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. "

" Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't. "

" Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. "

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

" For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane. "

" 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 question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question. "

" 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. "

" Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. "

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

" I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.' "

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

" What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. "

" I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. "

" What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses. "