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" The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. "

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" Women are liked better when they lose. "

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

" Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. "

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" Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. "

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

" A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. "

" Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. "

" 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. "

" There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better. "

" I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone. "

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

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

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" Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. "

" Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. "

" When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. "

" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "

" 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. "

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

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" Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. "