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Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

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

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

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

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.

I can't tell the difference between my work life and my private life - it's all the same to me.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

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

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

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

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

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

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

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

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

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Human beings are communal beings and we can't exist or prosper by ourselves. We need each other's support.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

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