The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn’t.
Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.
What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I’ve worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you’re not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you’re a feminist because you couldn’t get a man.
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother – so I wouldn’t be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.
The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, ‘What shall we do about this?’ And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.
We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it’s what comes from our friends.
I can say whatever it is that I feel.
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.
I’m so happy that we’re finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we’re told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.
Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn’t make sense to label people in that way.
We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Women don’t want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.
We’re never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
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.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.
I’m lucky I don’t make my living in front of the camera.
Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
There’s no shortage of great young activists.
Women are liked better when they lose.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence – and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
I am not patient.
There’s a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
The error that we tend to make is that we think that women’s magazines are what editors want and what their readers want – and thus are social indicators – when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They’re just advertising indicators.
If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.
In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.
A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.
I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, ‘Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.’
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women – or the welfare of anyone – depending on who controls it.
You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.
‘Ms.’ always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don’t have food ads unless you have recipes. You don’t get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women’s magazine does.
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
I keep thinking: ‘Georgia O’Keeffe wouldn’t have had Botox.’
The surest way to be alone is to get married.
Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years – about twice as long as other bears – between having cubs. And after they’re pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It’s great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
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.
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