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One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my ...more

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Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning

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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

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Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.

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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...more

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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

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Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

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I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It’s...more

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Rich People plan for three generationsPoor people plan for Saturday night

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Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence as a wa...more

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Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

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My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither d...more

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As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.