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

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

" Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie. "

" 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. "

" In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. "

" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. "

" 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. "

" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "

" 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. "

" Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. "

" I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. "

" 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. "

" If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit. "

" Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. "

" Logic is in the eye of the logician. "

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

" Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. "

" 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. "

" There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. "

" Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. "

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

" I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon. "

" 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. "