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" The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher. "

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

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

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" In Sweden, both parents take care of the children. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. "

" Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. "

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" 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. "

" I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. "

" Hope is a very unruly emotion. "

" Logic is in the eye of the logician. "

" 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. "

" Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys. "

" There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. "

" Liberation does not come from outside. "

" 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 was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off. "

" Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees. "