Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.

If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.

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

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.