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...Steinem: That's a mistake. It renders women invisible. This is a revolution, not a public relations movement. You have to speak to the constituency. If you say "family issues" to most women, it's like going back to the past -- and feeling guilty again. To make changes, you need new language. For instance, we could say "families" to honor more than one form, and inspire hope of change by saying "democratic families." But even so, we can't say to women, "You don't exist on your...
...Steinem: Women have two problems with the label. The first is that people don't know what it means. If they look it up in the dictionary and see that feminism just means the full economic, social and political equality of women, they'll agree. But the second is that people do know what it means. If you say, "I'm for equal pay," that's a reform. But if you say, "I'm a , feminist," that's equality for all females -- a transformation of society. As you get older, you realize you might as well say "feminist." Any term...
...Steinem: That's always the way change is dealt with. The first big "death of feminism" headline was in 1969. Then the Equal Rights Amendment was either going to change Western civilization as we knew it and destroy the family, or it was unnecessary because we already had equality...
...Steinem: I don't want to sound like a complaining author, but there is a chasm between the important reviews and the popular response. What I wrote as a strengthening of self-authority, some reviewers called weakness -- even a retreat from activism. At first, I was very hurt, but then I realized it was partly their wishful thinking...
...Steinem: We've reached the point where the movement is powerful enough to make jobs for antifeminist women. You don't get work selling out a movement until there is a movement. I used to think about that with Phyllis Schlafly. I thought, Well, at least...