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we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud
We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.
Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you.
Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.
Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.
One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?
When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
Anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.
why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?
There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.
If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.
What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?
When gender comes down upon us, male or female, it comes as a restriction.
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.
I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.
Crime is not the problem of the victim, the victim didn't create the crime.
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.
Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.
Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.