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

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" The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. "

" I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. "

" No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. "

" 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. "

" You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free. "

" 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. "

" Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie. "

" Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. "

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

" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "

" Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. "

" The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. "

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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. "

" I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera. "

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

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

" Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. "

" Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot. "

" Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "

" People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet. "

" 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. "

" If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. "