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Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.

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

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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.

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Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

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Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

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Most women are one man away from welfare.

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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.

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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?

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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?'

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Logic is in the eye of the logician.

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

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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

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Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

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We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.

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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.

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

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In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.

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I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

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I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

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

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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

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The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

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

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Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.

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Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

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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.

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

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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.

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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

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