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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.
I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.
I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.
Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.
What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.
I always thought that "humanist" was a good word long before I understood that anyone thought it was a bad word.
I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.
I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.
We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.
Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.
You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.
imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.
In art, women could never get training. They couldn't get their work out into the world even when they could get training.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.