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" What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. "

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" The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. "

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

" Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. "

" You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories. "

" The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. "

" The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. "

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

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

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