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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.

— 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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