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" There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. "

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" We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "

" Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice. "

" When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. "

" 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. "

" I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. "

" There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. "

" As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot. "

" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "

" 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. "

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

" The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. "

" What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man. "

" 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. "

" Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't. "

" 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. "

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

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

" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "

" Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "

" If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? "

" If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. "

" We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families. "

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

" 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. "

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