Gloria Steinem

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

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

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

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

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.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.

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.

The Constitution did not mention women when it was first written, and it still doesn't.

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.

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.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

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, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.