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" We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys. "
Gloria Steinem
Must
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Begin
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" 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. "
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" As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. "
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" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "
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" The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. "
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