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" If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. "

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" Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us. "

Gloria Steinem

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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. "

" Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement. "

" I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.' "

" The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. "

" Men are victims of their own impulses. "

" Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. "

" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

" 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. "

" Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees. "

" For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane. "

" Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real. "

" America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. "

" I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone. "

" Women are liked better when they lose. "

" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "

" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "

" 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. "

" Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. "

" I can say whatever it is that I feel. "

" Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. "

" 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. "

" Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. "

" 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. "

" I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.' "

Gloria Steinem

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" For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. "

" Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. "

" I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.' "

" Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. "

" There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. "