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    • No matter what, someone will think I am one, so what the hell -- I might as well enjoy the perks of being an actual bitch.
    • The old-fashioned, put-down usage of bitch is like a girdle; it holds women back and in, and in a most uncomfortable and unhealthy way.

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    • What he misses is the bigger picture. Japanese car companies aren’t losing money on worker health care benefits because health care in Japan is provided by federal and local governments, and all elderly Japanese citizens are covered through national health insurance.
    • In a Guttmacher study (pdf), 73 percent of women listed “can’t afford a baby right now” as one of their reasons for having an abortion

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    • I quote a statistic in the book that 80 or 90 percent of kids who were criticized about their weight end up with permanent issues with it. It wires insecurity into your hard drive. Criticism from your mother turns into self-criticism; anything your mother says sticks. The gray matter is shaped around that. So instead of learning to play piano when you’re an adolescent, you learn to hate your body.
    • I went on a talk show about eating disorders, and I went out there and said that the most pervasive eating disorder in America is chronic dieting.
    • But there is also the distinct whiff of relief in the momification of Michelle, and in the regress to Camelot. It's as though the American media -- exhausted after the progressive exertions of having to be respectful and not misogynist about two women running for political office -- has loosened its belt and is relaxing back into a world in which all you have to do is write about what they wear and how they mother.
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