When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

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.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

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

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.