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

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

" 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. "

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

" Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?' "

" 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. "

" I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. "

Black-And-White

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. "

" When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me. "

" Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. "

" 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. "

" It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. "

Change The World

" 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. "

" Women are liked better when they lose. "

" Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. "

" Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. "

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

" Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. "

" Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. "

" A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. "

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

" Law and justice are not always the same. "

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

" 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. "

" Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for. "

" The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. "

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

" For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane. "