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" The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did in a European tradition and 'crafts' were what women and natives did. But it's actually all the same. "

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" I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression. "

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" Women's progress has been a collective effort. "

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

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

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

Gloria Steinem

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

" 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 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. "

" A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves. "

" A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. "

" We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern really was meant for men who really were the financial support but weren't looking after their families. We need to change this, and we can easily do that. "

" You know there is a person inside every baby, right? And anybody who has ever met a baby knows there is already a person in there. "

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

" I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. "

" Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. "

" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "

" If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic. "

" 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. "

" What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. "

" 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. "

" 'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture. "

" 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. "

" The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. "

" 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. "

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