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" 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'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. "

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" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

" The surest way to be alone is to get married. "

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

" Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. "

" Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. "

" There's no shortage of great young activists. "

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

" Men are victims of their own impulses. "

" 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. "

" The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. "

" A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. "

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

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

" 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?' "

" Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life. "

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

" What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that. "

" Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body. "

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

" If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal. "

" The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't. "

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

" 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. "

" Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way. "

" 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. "

" This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. "

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

" I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon. "

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

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