"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

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"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."

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"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up."

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"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

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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."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"In Indian Country, he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning-and more will."

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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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"Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

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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 woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual."

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"No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin-because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life."

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"I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves."

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"Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key."

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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

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