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

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

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

" The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. "

" 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. "

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

" We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families. "

" Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys. "

" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. "

" I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.' "

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

" As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. "

" There's no shortage of great young activists. "

" I am not patient. "

" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real. "

" I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. "

" There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. "

" 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. "

" Liberation does not come from outside. "

" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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