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" Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. "

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" In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. "

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

" If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. "

" I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives. "

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

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" A bad facelift is like a bad toupee. "

" The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving. "

" 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. "

" I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.' "

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" 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. "

" Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do. "

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

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" It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. "

Change The World

" Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. "

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

" 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. "

Black-And-White

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

" The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question. "

" Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. "

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

" For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. "

" What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses. "