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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

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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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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

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If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

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Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

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If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.

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If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.

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Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

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We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: March 25th, 1934

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