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" 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. "

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" 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?' "

Gloria Steinem

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White

" 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. "

" Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is. "

" If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse. "

" 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. "

Gloria Steinem

Look

Freedom

" Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. "

Gloria Steinem

Women

Some

" Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it. "

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

" In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. "

" The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. "

" Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. "

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

Gloria Steinem

Short

People

" I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life. "

Gloria Steinem

Year

Books

" 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. "

" The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't. "

" The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. "

" 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. "

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

" Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for. "

Gloria Steinem

Enough

See

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

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

" A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman. "

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Than

Woman

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

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

" 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. "

" There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better. "

" Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby. "

" What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that. "

" Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. "