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"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!"
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."

"Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women."

"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."
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"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 we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do."

"I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me."

"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."

"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."

"The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain."

"When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary."

"My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am."

"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."
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