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" Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. "

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" Women are liked better when they lose. "

" It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. "

Change The World

" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "

" A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. "

" Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do. "

" There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. "

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

" The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. "

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

" The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher. "

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

" What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. "

" When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. "

" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "

" Law and justice are not always the same. "

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

" 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. "

Black-And-White

" I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad. "

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

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

" Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot. "

" In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. "

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

" 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. "