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If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

— Gloria Steinem Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)

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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.

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

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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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