Gloria Steinem

As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the _x000D_ ability to draw us into new dreams of justice, and to make them _x000D_ irresistibly practical, humorous and human. She makes clear that _x000D_ progress and pleasure go together.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

Feminism is about friends and sisters and community.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

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.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

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

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.

Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

There are six million female lives lost in the world every year simply because they are female.

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

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

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

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.