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"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
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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."
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"We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!"
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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."
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"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."
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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
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"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."
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"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."
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"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."
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"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."
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"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."
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"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."
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"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
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"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
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"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
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"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
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"Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning."
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"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."
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"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels."
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