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"As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous."
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"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."

"I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one."

"I could leave-because I could return. I could return-because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and."

"The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too."

"It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit."

"It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous."

"The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please."
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