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.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls attractive, then people say that you got ahead because of your looks-especially if you're a woman. If you're whatever society says is not attractive, then they say you got ahead because you're compensating, you couldn't get a man or whatever. So everybody pays the same penalty for the fact that women are assessed for their outsides rather than for what's in our heads and our hearts.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should be a matter of free choice. It shouldn't be forced on you by economics, including dependence on a husband, or by pressure.

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

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