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In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

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When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

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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.

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Liberation does not come from outside.

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Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.

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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.

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I am not patient.

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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.

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Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

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How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: March 25th, 1934

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