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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

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Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for...

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is...

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

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