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" You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories. "

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" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

Gloria Steinem

Believe

You

Think

" Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life. "

" Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts. "

" 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. "

" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "

" Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. "

" 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 AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack. "

" One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism. "

" The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. "

" 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. "

" Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. "

" If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? "

" Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys. "

Gloria Steinem

Much

Need

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

" Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot. "

Gloria Steinem

Party

I Believe

" To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions. "

" 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.' "

" Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers. "

" I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie. "

Gloria Steinem

Woman

First

" After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that! "

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

" If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? "

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

" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "