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"I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation."
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"Feminist politics is losing momentum because feminist movement has lost clear definitions. We have those definitions. Let's reclaim them. We can share the simple yet powerful message that feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression."
"Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women."
"By naming sexism as the problem it went directly to the heart of the matter. Practically, it is a definition which implies that all sexist thinking and action is the problem, whether those who perpetuate it are female or male, child or adult."
"To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism."
"Women always bring it back to the personal,' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.''And men never do,' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead."
"If improving conditions in the workplace for women had been a central agenda for feminist movement in conjunction with efforts to obtain better paying jobs for women and finding jobs for unemployed women of all classes, feminism would have been seen as a movement addressing the concerns of all women."
"Critical interventions around race did not destroy the women's movement; it became stronger . . . It shows us that no matter how misguided feminist thinkers have been in the past, the will to change, the will to create the context for struggle and liberation, remains stronger than the need to hold on to wrong beliefs and assumptions."
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"Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in."
"There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before."
"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."
"I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me."
"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
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