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" Women's progress has been a collective effort. "

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" The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party. "

" God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. "

" Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. "

" 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 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.' "

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

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

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

" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "

" Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. "

" The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. "

" 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. "

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

" Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby. "

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

" You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free. "

" Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body. "

" What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that. "

" 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. "

" Logic is in the eye of the logician. "

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

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

" I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad. "

" The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't. "

" I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. "

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

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