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"When women have so absorbed the disease of sexism that they themselves can inflict it on each other, we clearly have a perfect, self-replenishing machine for the continuation of sexism. Unable to turn our assertiveness against men, we turn it against each other. Thus we remain stuck in the troubles we always had. It is imperative we renovate the machine -- no, not renovate it, but smash it entirely, so that we allow women to be all they need to be."
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"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."
"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."
"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."
"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."
"You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights."
"Today we must remove distinctions of high and low, rich and poor, caste or creed."
"While EQUALITY means no more 'previously disadvantaged' it also means that there should be no 'currently disadvantaged' to replace them."
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"It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future. Never mind that you have no control over it. The idea of the future is our greatest entertainment, amusement, and time-killer."
"I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am."
"I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other being good to each other."
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
"What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave."
"Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God."
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