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" There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. "

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" God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. "

" You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A bad facelift is like a bad toupee. "

" I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad. "

" Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. "

" I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner. "

" We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. "

" 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. "

" One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. "

" I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life. "

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

" 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?' "

" Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. "

" I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie. "

" Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby. "

" 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. "

" In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. "

" 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. "

" Liberation does not come from outside. "

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

" A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. "

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

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

" '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. "

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