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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.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.
There are two types of people in the world, those who say 'there are two types of people in the world' and those who don't.
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.
Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.
I do think it's important that there are feminist publications that are not dependent or only marginally dependent on advertising.
The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically.
No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.
the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.
In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.
I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."
When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?
There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.
The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.
A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.
I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.
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.
I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."
There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.
You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.
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.
I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.
I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.
Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for.
Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.
Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.
Writers are notorious for using any reason to keep from working: over-researching, retyping, going to meetings, waxing the floors - anything.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.
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.
We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.