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" Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie. "

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" 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. "

Gloria Steinem

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Fear

Love

" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "

Gloria Steinem

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" The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance. "

" The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question. "

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

" Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. "

" Women are liked better when they lose. "

" Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge. "

" We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. "

" As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot. "

" Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body. "

" 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. "

" The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. "

" Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. "

" The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. "

" 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. "

" Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood. "

" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "

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

" Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. "

" If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal. "

" We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. "

Gloria Steinem

Daughters

" Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. "

" Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. "

Gloria Steinem

Look

Freedom

" I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon. "

" If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society. "

" A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. "

" Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. "

" Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. "

" Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do. "