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The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
I hate when people say, "Have fun at the press preview." Fun is talking to you.
I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.
It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.
... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.
Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.
If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.
Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.
All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.
Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.
Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history.
Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."
How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.
Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.