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.
— Gloria Steinem
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.
One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.
Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
Men are victims of their own impulses.
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.
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.
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.
There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.
Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
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.
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.
We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys.
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
It's easier to blame the person with less power.
I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.
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 Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.
Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.
Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.
There is nothing more fundamental than the idea that the government does not have a right to decide when and whether we have children.
In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
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 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.
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.
Women's progress has been a collective effort.
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
As long as working women also have to do the work of child and family care at home, they will have two jobs instead of one. Perhaps more important, children will grow up thinking that only women can be loving and nurturing, and men cannot.
Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.
There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.
Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.
