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

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" 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. "

" Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "

" A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. "

" 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. "

" Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. "

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

" Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?' "

" 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. "

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

" I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone. "

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

" 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. "

" Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. "

" 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. "

" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "

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

" I am not patient. "

" For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane. "

" What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories. "

" Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. "

" In Sweden, both parents take care of the children. "

" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "

" 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. "

" Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice. "

" Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. "

" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "