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"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."
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"I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view."
"I figure when you get married, it doesn't matter how much you earn or how much your husband earns, just as long as everything you do for the house is together, while still reserving some part of yourself to be yourself."
"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."
"Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed."
"I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back."
"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."
"I'm fairly in tune with what's private with my husband and with me."
"Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one."
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"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."
"I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!"
"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."
"Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth."
"When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin."
"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you."
"I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk."
"I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her."
"Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA."
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