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Gloria Marie Steinem (born 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who was a columnist for New York magazine and co-founded Ms. magazine. She also co-founded the Women's Media Center, and serves on its board. She was married for three years to David Bale, before his death. She has also written books such as Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions: Second Edition (Owlet Book), Revolution From Within, Doing Sixty and Seventy, and Marilyn.

She wrote in the Preface to this 1994 book, "I was hoping this would be an easy book. Having taken a long time with the last one, 'Revolution from Within,' I thought this could be a collection of previously-published articles. All I would have to do was write a short introduction and a transition or two... But more than a year later, it has become a book of mostly new writing..."

Here are some quotations from the book:

"Freud treated HIS biography as OUR destiny." (Pg. 30)

"...I could imagine the source of (John Kenneth Galbraith's) ability to criticize the hyperconsumption of this affluent society, and even to name its conversion of 'housewives' (or homemakers, as many women prefer, since they are not married to houses) into the first educated, full-time consumers in history." (Pg. 200)

"This is the deep economics of patriarchy: the valuing of male-style 'production' but not female-style 'REproduction.'" (Pg. 221)

"A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means." (Pg. 271)

"As you can see, I'm just beginning to realize the upcoming pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-s___ older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer limits as just road signs." (Pg. 280)