Gloria Steinem

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.' ”

We must begin to shift the emphasis of teen-age pregnancy to teen-age boys. ”

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

If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit. ”

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. ”

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave. ”

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. ”

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 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. ”

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. ”