Gloria Steinem
What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.
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.
Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.
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.
Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.
The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.
The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do about this?' And a nonconstructive one is one that tries to label people.
These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.
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.
The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.
For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.
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.'
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.
In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.
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.
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 can say whatever it is that I feel.
A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.
I am not patient.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.
It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.
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.
Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- every reproductive issue we've ever fought for.
Women are liked better when they lose.
There's no shortage of great young activists.
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.
We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.
There's been the same kind of demonizing of the word 'feminism' as words like 'liberal,' 'affirmative action,' and so on.
'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does.
I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.
I keep thinking: 'Georgia O'Keeffe wouldn't have had Botox.'
After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!
Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.
I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children.
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.
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.
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.
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.
In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.
As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.
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.
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?'
I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.
Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.