The famous feminist, Gloria Steinem at one point stated, “ you became a semi-nonperson when you got married .” She also famously coined the expression ' A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle ,' Steinem dismissed marriage in 1987 as not having a ' good name.

* The ' 70s ( 2000 ), Gloria Steinem

Co-founder Gloria Steinem has explained the motivation for starting Ms. magazine, stating " I realized as a journalist that there really was nothing for women to read that was controlled by women, and this caused me along with a number of other women to start Ms.

" In her book Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Steinem characterised the term as " cruel and ahistorical ", and elaborated on the repression of feminism under Hitler, noting that many prominent German feminists like Helene Stöcker, Trude Weiss-Rosmarin and Clara Zetkin were forced to flee Nazi Germany while others were killed in concentration camps.

Reprinted in an appendix to Paglia's Vamps and Tramps ( 1994 ), in one sketch Callahan depicted prominent feminists Gloria Steinem, Susan Faludi and Naomi Wolf hiding behind a small hill, seemingly terrified of Sexual Personae and poking the book with stick.

Popular feminist writers associated with this theory are Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill ; Second Wave feminists Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem ; and the Third Wave feminist Rebecca Walker.

In 1971 Rep. Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem founded the National Women's Political Caucus to advocate for more women and feminists in elective office.

Also in 1971, Gloria Steinem and others began publishing Ms. Magazine, the first national feminist magazine The first three hundred thousand copies of Ms. sold out in eight days ; the magazine name comes from the fact that the title Ms. was originally popularized by feminists in the 1970s to replace Miss and Mrs. and provide a parallel term to Mr., in that both Ms. and Mr. designate gender without indicating marital status.

In 1971, Abzug joined other leading feminists such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan to found the National Women's Political Caucus.

* American feminists Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin co-founded Ms. magazine.

According to Steinem, Traynor once stated that, " When I first dated she was so shy, it shocked her to be seen nude by a man ... I created Linda Lovelace ".

It has been hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “ a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking ,” by Peter Senge as “ desperately needed ,” and by Gloria Steinem as “ revolutionary .”

According to Steinem, " Hitler came to power against the strong feminist movement in Germany, padlocked the family planning clinics, and declared abortion a crime against the state — all views that more closely resemble Rush Limbaugh ’ s.

Along with several dozen then-prominent writers and political activists ( including James Baldwin, Jules Feiffer, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Gloria Steinem ) he signed the Violence in Oakland essay, condemning police violence against Black Panther Party members in Oakland, California on April 6, 1968 ( violence that included the killing of 17-year-old Bobby Hutton and the wounding of Eldridge Cleaver ).

Cory used to co-host a nationally syndicated morning radio show called " The Radio Ritas " for the now defunct Greenstone Media the brain child of Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda.

Among the new contributors are Colin Powell, Isabel Allende, Bill Gates, Gloria Steinem, Newt Gingrich, Penn Jillette.

They are considered role models for young people of color, who, in the words of Gloria Steinem, " have been denied the knowledge that greatness looks like them.

However, in the 1960s the mini had been regarded as a symbol of liberation, and it was worn by some, such as Germaine Greer and, in the following decade, Gloria Steinem, who became known for their promotion of women's issues.

In this position, Ephron made a name for herself by taking on subjects as wide-ranging as Dorothy Schiff, her former boss and owner of the Post ; Betty Friedan, whom she chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem ; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out a generation of " docile " women.

As she told the writer Gloria Steinem during the 1968 presidential campaign, " I never had time to think about things like that — who I wanted to be, or who I admired, or to have ideas.

The title of Ms. magazine was suggested by a friend of Gloria Steinem who had heard the term in an interview on WBAI radio and suggested it as a title for the new magazine.

The petition contains signatures of over 5, 000 women declaring that they had an abortion and were " unashamed of ( the ) decision ", including actresses Amy Brenneman and Kathy Najimy, comedienne Carol Leifer, and Steinem herself.

It had always had extremely vociferous critics, from the tabloid press to Marxist groups ; and, generally, not a happy relationship with the so-called ' stars ' of feminism such as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem or Germaine Greer.

Felker gave Gloria Steinem what she later called her first " serious assignment ," regarding contraception ; he didn't like her first draft and had her re-write the article.

Gloria Steinem, a close friend, compared the impact of the book on the discussion surrounding women ’ s rights to the one that Ralph Ellison ’ s Invisible Man had had on racial equality 25 years earlier.

* The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem ( 1995 )

The restoration of the superpowered Wonder Woman was inspired, at least in part, by complaints from feminist advocate Gloria Steinem about the de-powering of the character.

In the early ' 70's Gloria Steinem drew attention to this concept with her praise of Wonder Woman as a feminist icon, and her criticism of DC's decision in 1968 to change Wonder Woman's powers.

* 30-David Bale, 62, South African businessman and activist ; husband of Gloria Steinem.

In 2004, Limbaugh named feminist activists Gloria Steinem, Susan Sarandon, Christine Lahti, and Camryn Manheim as " famous feminazis.

In a 1996 interview, Gloria Steinem criticized Limbaugh's use of the term feminazi.

Faludi has rejected the claim advanced by critics that there is a " rigid, monolithic feminist orthodoxy ", noting in response that she has disagreed with Gloria Steinem about pornography and Naomi Wolf about abortion.

Like Gloria Steinem, Faludi has criticized the obscurantism prevalent in academic feminist theorizing, saying, " There's this sort of narrowing specialization and use of coded, elitist language of deconstruction or New Historicism or whatever they're calling it these days, which is to my mind impenetrable and not particularly useful.

Famous writers and journalists from the city include P. J. O ' Rourke, Christine Brennan, Philana Marie Boles, Mari Evans, Mildred D. Taylor, and Gloria Steinem.

* July 10 – Gloria Steinem holds her Address to the Women of America speech.

HBO has recently produced a documentary of the life and work of Gloria Steinem, perhaps the name most associated with the women ’ s movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1985, Bud Fox ( Charlie Sheen ), a junior stockbroker at Jackson Steinem & Co., is desperate to get to the top.

Bud triumphantly goes back to work at Jackson Steinem the following day, where he is confronted by the police and the SEC and arrested for insider trading.

Michael Specter writes that it provides for groups such as the Humane Society of the United States the same dynamic that Malcolm X provided for Martin Luther King, or Andrea Dworkin for Gloria Steinem — someone radical to alienate the mainstream and make moderate voices more appealing.

In 2005, Fonda worked alongside Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem to co-found the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content.

Around 1971, in a lull during a WBAI-radio interview with The Feminists group, Michaels suggested the use of Ms. A friend of Gloria Steinem heard the interview and suggested it as a title for her new magazine.

The recurring cast included Frost, Morgan, Buck Henry and Alan Alda, with Nancy Ames singing the opening song ; regular contributors included Gloria Steinem, William F. Brown, Tom Lehrer and Calvin Trillin.

Gregory was an outspoken feminist, and in 1978 he joined Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Margaret Heckler, Barbara Mikulski, and original suffragists to lead the National ERA March for Ratification and Extension, a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the United States Capitol of over 100, 000 on Women's Equality Day ( August 26 ), 1978 to demonstrate for a ratification deadline extension for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, and for the ratification of the ERA.