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" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "
Gloria Steinem
Sex
Caste
Only
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" A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. "
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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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" I can say whatever it is that I feel. "
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" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. "
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" 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. "
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" One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. "
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Talking
Always
" Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. "
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Walk
Talk
" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "
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Prison
Pedestal
" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "
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Man
Advice
Career
" 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. "
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Culture
Money
" 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. "
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Action
" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "
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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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See
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't. "
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Did
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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. "
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" 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.' "
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