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" The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys. "

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

" These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. "

" Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives. "

" If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. "

" The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators. "

" I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie. "

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

" We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "