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" Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for. "

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" We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys. "

" I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.' "

" Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "

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

" The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. "

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

" Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. "

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

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

" If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. "

" If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse. "

" Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera. "

" 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. "

" I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. "

" We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. "

" 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. "

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

" Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence. "

" Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. "

" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. "

" When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. "

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

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

" 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. "

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