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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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 am not patient. "

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" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "

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" We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. "

" The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. "

" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "

" What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories. "

" Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. "

" Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.' "

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

" A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. "

" The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. "

" The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture. "

" I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do. "

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

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

" Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice. "

" 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. "

" If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. "

Gloria Steinem

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Without

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

" Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. "

" 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. "

" Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. "

" Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. "

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" If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. "