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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."

"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."
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"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."


"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him."


"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."


"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."


"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it."


"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."


"Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself."
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