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" 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. "

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" In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. "

Gloria Steinem

Black

Women

White

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

" 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. "

" Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. "

" When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. "

" 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. "

" When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity. "

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

" Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb. "

" I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem. "

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

" In Sweden, both parents take care of the children. "

" What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses. "

" 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. "

Gloria Steinem

Long

People

" Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle. "