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" 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. "

Gloria Steinem

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Books

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

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

" 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. "

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

" What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man. "

" 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. "

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" We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. "

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

Gloria Steinem

Than

Woman

" Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement. "

" I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera. "

" The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please. "

" Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. "

" 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. "

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

" Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. "

" The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving. "

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

" There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation. "

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

Gloria Steinem

Man

Without

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.' "

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