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Catherine Steiner-Adair

[W]hy are so many incredibly bright, talented, and capable teenagers developing these new, life threatening eating disorders?

Gloria Steinem

Then younger feminists came along with an analysis that included all females—a revolution and not a reform—and it made sense of my own life.

Alix Kates Shulman

The idea was simply this: that a woman and man should share equally the responsibillity for their household and children in every way...

Lynn Sherr

Anthony's home in Rochester—the centerpiece of this clip—remains a living symbol of the first stirrings of feminism in America.

Barbara Seaman

This feminist disobedience, day after day, became a major story in the news, and by June we had secured an FDA warning to users of the Pill.

Susan Weidman Schneider

The cover of the first issue featured our artist's version of the Jewish superwoman, who managed to amalgamate almost all possible roles...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Our goal at Ms. was to make such lives visible, to honor women's work, and to expose the legal, economic, and social barriers that stand in the way of women's full humanity.

Judith Plaskow

B'not Esh has provided a model for how separatist feminist spaces can generate ideas and energy that spill over in to a larger community.

Marge Piercy

The poems in The Art of Blessing the Day were written over a 20-year period.

Joan Nestle

More than ever, I believe in a feminism that does not run from the full complexity of women's lives, from the vital differences between us as well as the connections that bind us.

Deena Metzger

Our intention in turning it into a poster was to invite the world to look at a one-breasted woman and exult in her health and vitality.

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Though the content of our mission is not specifically feminist, we have modeled feminist activism...

Florence Howe

I knew also that if this magnificent story had been “lost” for 90 years, much more must have also been lost.

Susannah Heschel

Twenty years ago, writing about Judaism from a feminist perspective, rather than discussing women from “Judaism's” point of view, seemed audacious.

Nancy Miriam Hawley

[W]e realized that the title “Women and their Bodies” was itself a sign of our alienation from our bodies.

Gloria Greenfield

In the late 1960s, I began a journey “out of the patriarchy” towards territory unknown.

Gloria Greenfield

I was making a conscious decision to change my primary identity from ‘Jewish radical feminism’ to ‘feminist Jew.’

Blu Greenberg

My critique was two–pronged: what Orthodoxy and feminism could learn from each other.

Merle Feld

[I]t expresses the hope, the expectation even, that we will all come together to rejoice in our heritage...

Marcia Falk

I recited these blessings as though they had been written a couple of millennia ago by the rabbis, rather than the day before, by me.

V

V–World is the lives our mothers never got to live.

Ellen DuBois

From this point on, feminist approaches to sexuality were complex and multifaceted...

Judy Chicago

It was obvious that birth was a universal human experience and one that is central to women's lives. Why were there no images?

Phyllis Chesler

In a sense, my first protest took place in 1946 when I refused to learn Yiddish (a decision that I of course regret) but insisted instead on learning Hebrew.

Aviva Cantor

What captivated me was developing what amounted to a “unified field theory” by applying feminist methodology to explain all of Jewish history, culture, and psychology.

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