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It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're…

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Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out…
Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being…
Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool,…
The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without…
There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was…
Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people…
It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether…
Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means…
Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”
Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a…
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

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We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life… — Jennifer Garner
My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and… — Carre Otis
We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could… — Diana DeGette
None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the… — Emmeline B. Wells
Because our daughters have school and it's just such a hassle going down to New York all the time, we can really… — Kim Gordon
Football is multigenerational. It used to be about fathers taking their sons. Now we're taking our daughters, too. — Steve Tisch
I thought about all of us women and how we spend half our lives rebelling against our mothers and the next half… — Lois Wyse
Adult women, all of us, have to come to grips with how we have been affected by gender norms, and how we… — Jane Fonda
For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit. — Nancy Pelosi
Would we send our daughters off to have sex if it would benefit our country? Yet, we send our sons off to… — Leonard Ravenhill

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