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

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" 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.' "

" Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. "

" After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! "

" 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. "

" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "

" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "

" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. "

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" Liberation does not come from outside. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. "

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

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

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

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" I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.' "

" A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. "

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

" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "