- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law and justice are not always the same.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Middle
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
- Foot
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
- Social
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
- Hurtful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.
- Caste
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Immigrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.
- Each Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
- Nov 07, 2020
Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
- Equal Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.
- Close Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can say whatever it is that I feel.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberation does not come from outside.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not patient.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
- Discriminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020