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If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
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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. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
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