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" Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. "
Gloria Steinem
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" There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better. "
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" 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. "
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" No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. "
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" We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "
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" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "
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" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "
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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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" Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "
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" The surest way to be alone is to get married. "
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" If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse. "
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" As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. "
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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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" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "
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" 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. "
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" The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. "
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" The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. "
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" 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. "
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" I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. "
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" The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. "
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" In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. "
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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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" Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys. "
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" Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. "
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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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" 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. "
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