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I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'

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No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

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

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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.

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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

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

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

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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

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

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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.

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Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.

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Women's progress has been a collective effort.

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All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

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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.

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We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

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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.

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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.

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

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Hope is a very unruly emotion.

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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.

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

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If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

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

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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.

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Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

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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.

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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.

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You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.

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The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

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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.

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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

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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.

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Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

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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.

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Liberation does not come from outside.

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Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

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