United States feminist (born in 1934)

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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

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