Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

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

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Law and justice are not always the same.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.

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

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

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

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.