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" In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. "

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" 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. "

Gloria Steinem

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She

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?' "

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

" We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. "

" Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. "

" All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together. "

" Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't. "

Gloria Steinem

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" Women are liked better when they lose. "

" If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare. "

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

" I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "

" 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. "

" There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on. "

" Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing. "

" Law and justice are not always the same. "

" A bad facelift is like a bad toupee. "

Gloria Steinem

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Facelift

" In Sweden, both parents take care of the children. "

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

" The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. "

" Work is valued by the social value of the worker. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "

" 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. "

" Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism. "