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" The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. "
Gloria Steinem
Men
Violence
Women
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" 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. "
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" I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.' "
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" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "
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" Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. "
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" The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't. "
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" I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. "
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" Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. "
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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.' "
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" A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. "
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" 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. "
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" Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement. "
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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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Small
People
" 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. "
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" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "
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" Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. "
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" Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. "
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" 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. "
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" A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. "
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" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "
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" Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't. "
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" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "
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" 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. "
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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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