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As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

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Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.

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There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.

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Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'

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A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.

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This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

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A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.

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There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

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Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

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Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: March 25th, 1934

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