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" 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. "

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" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "

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" Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. "

" Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. "

" 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. "

" These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think. "

" Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture. "

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

" When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. "

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

" The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. "

" 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. "

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

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" If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit. "

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

" Work is valued by the social value of the worker. "

" I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do. "

" As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. "

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

" A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. "

" 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. "

" All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. "

" Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys. "

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

" Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. "

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

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" 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. "

" The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what. "

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

" If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? "