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

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" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "

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" All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. "

" Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. "

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

" 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. "

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

" America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. "

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

" The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. "

" 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. "

" All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. "

" Law and justice are not always the same. "

" We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. "

" 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. "

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

" Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. "

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

" The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. "

" 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. "