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"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."
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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."
"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."
"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
"Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top."
"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."
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"All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child."
"In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat."
"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."
"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."
"If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children."
"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."
"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."
"There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger."
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
"Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you."
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