I found a few quotations from Gloria Steinem that impressed me.

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

"For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique."

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

"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."

"The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government."

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

"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."

"From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence--and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified."

"For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable."

No commentary needed. Gloria is very assertive.