Gloria Steinem

In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group. ”

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. ”

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

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. ”

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. ”

A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive. ”

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. ”

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have. ”

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. ”

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. ”