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" 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. "

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" Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body. "

Gloria Steinem

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Body

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. "

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" Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female. "

" Liberation does not come from outside. "

" Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. "

" I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Gloria Steinem

Short

People

" 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 always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.' "

Gloria Steinem

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Saying