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" I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner. "

Gloria Steinem

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" Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. "

" Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. "

" What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses. "

" Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys. "

Gloria Steinem

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" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "

" I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do. "

" Law and justice are not always the same. "

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

" The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving. "

" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "

" The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and thus are social indicators - when, in fact, they are what advertisers want. They're just advertising indicators. "

" The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. "

" The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people. "

" There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. "

" As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. "

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

" The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. "

" 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 started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. "

" 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. "

" Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. "

" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "