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The real reasons for genital mutilation can only be understood in the context of the "patriarchy": men must control women's bodies as the means of production, and thus repress the independent power of women's sexuality.

— Gloria Steinem

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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Moving Beyond Words (1994)

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Moving Beyond Words (1994)

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.

We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

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