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" Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound. "

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" To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions. "

Gloria Steinem

Race

Say

Believe

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

" 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. "

" If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? "

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

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

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

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

" A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. "

Gloria Steinem

Man

Without

" 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. "

" Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one. "

Gloria Steinem

Admirable

Amazing

" I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie. "

Gloria Steinem

Woman

First

" Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form. "

" 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. "

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

" I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. "

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

" If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate. "

" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "

" I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. "

" I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine. "

Gloria Steinem

Will

Miss

" Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. "

" Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. "

" All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing. "

" 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. "

" I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives. "

Gloria Steinem

Media

Women

" 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. "

" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. "

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

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