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The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Advocate Agenda Alliance Back Between Child Corporations Federal Federal Government Feminist Form Government Groups Hours Insofar Labor Need New Our Our Time Progressive Pursue Push Recovering Strategy Time Unions Willing Work

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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Consciousness Deals Ever Feminist Lesbian Out She Sleeps True Whether Women

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There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Call Came Circles Feminist Feminists Fifties Forties God Knows Lesbian Lesbians New New York Themselves Through Up Were Who Would York You

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I am an adamant feminist. It never occurred to me to take my husband's name when we married. I am a supporter of abortion rights, of equal pay for equal work, of the rights of women prisoners, of all the time-honored feminist causes, and then some.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Abortion Adamant Am Causes Equal Equal Pay Feminist Husband Married Me Name Never Occurred Pay Prisoners Rights Some Supporter Take Then Women Work I Am

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Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Basic Before Being Consider Do-It-Yourself Even Failure Father Feminist Generally Growing Growing Up Had Hammer Hand He His Jewish Jews Knew Manage Married More Needed Only Owned Pair Real Shoe Something Thought Tool Tools Up Used

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The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Company Conscious Enjoy Failings Feminist Gay Insecure Kid Laugh Makes Man Me Someone Stereotypical Want Who Whose Woman

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Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Feminist Group Had Know Listen Mom Raised Sit Stairs Them Top Used Well You I Was Raised 1970S

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I mean, I absolutely call myself a feminist. And by that, I mean a woman who believes that your opportunities should not be constrained by your gender, that women should be entitled to the same opportunities as men.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Absolutely Believes Call Constrained Entitled Feminist Gender Mean Men Myself Opportunities Same Should Who Woman Women Your

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Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Alarming Become Eventually Feminist Just Liberation Like Men More Nasty None Outcomes Point Point Of View Predicted Suggestion Than View Women Would

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Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Absolutely Art Certain Define Feminist Kind Myself Perpetuate Political Resistant Those Which Women

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