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" The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack. "

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" What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group. "

Gloria Steinem

You

Strength

" No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. "

" 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. "

" This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. "

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

" 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? "

" Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do. "

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

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

" The surest way to be alone is to get married. "

" The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on. "

" 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. "

" It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate. "

" 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 first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. "

" I am not patient. "

Gloria Steinem

I Am

Patient

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

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

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

Gloria Steinem

Man

Without

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

" There's no shortage of great young activists. "

" 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. "

" One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. "

" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "

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