"What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married."

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"What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married."

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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."

Authority

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Woman

"I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph."

Reflection

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Woman

"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."

Identity

"I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer."

Leadership

"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."

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"This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism."

Society

"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate."

Change

"For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be "of good mind, in her phrase, which also meant a people's ability to survive."

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