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“... is why North American feminist figureheads of the stature of Barbara Ehrenreich, Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan have given it their impeccably feminist imprimatur. As North American feminist figureheads of great stature, Barbara Ehrenreich, Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan are all ...”

“... her half-sister (Berniece Miracle), her stalkers (Robert Slatzer, James Haspiel), her saviours (Gloria Steinem, Kate Millett), her driver of one summer (Colin Clark), her coroner (Thomas Noguchi), to say nothing of half a dozen big novelists and enough conspiracy hacks to fill a jumbo jet. In some cases (usually academic) the more books written about a ...”

“... her ‘magic friend’, her beauty, and saw no way of surviving without it. Whose fault was this? Gloria Steinem’s Marilyn generously tackles the problem from a feminist viewpoint or, more precisely, like the most understanding kind of schoolteacher, looking for everything favourable to say about the anxiously smiling pupil. Joe DiMaggio didn’t ask ...”

“... shy. Bending back each digit and making a face, she’d offer a defining word after each name:Gloria Steinem – phoneyJanet Malcolm – pretentiousRenata Adler – crackpotSusan Sontag – nobodyNora Ephron – liarOther hand:Kenneth Tynan – creepTruman Capote – leechGeorge Plimpton – slickTom Wolfe – talentlessPhilip Roth – jerkIt was a ...”

“... the life-changer is Faith Frank, a dazzling second-wave feminist ‘a couple of steps down from Gloria Steinem in fame’. At 63, Faith still wears the suede boots she favoured in her glory days, and they ‘let everyone know she had once been a knockout, a sexual powerhouse, and maybe still was’. In the 1980s Faith wrote a manifesto called The ...”

“... The agent might be the Supreme Court (even as at present constituted) or it might be Gloria Steinem. We, who tolerate limitations on freedom unknown to Americans, might feel a bit embarrassed about some of the consequences. Pondering Steinem’s ideals, Amis asks: ‘Would I want to be a writer in a ...”

“... in French maids’ uniforms – had joined the table for lunch with Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem. (Said Mom: “They were the perfect people to talk with domestic workers about the difficulty of working in someone else’s home.”)’ After the divorce, Pat alternates between tearfully eating tubs of ice cream in bed and leading ...”

“... she was funny. Shteir sees her not as some sort of ur-feminist, but certainly as ‘anticipating Gloria Steinem’ in that ‘Gypsy created a sexy, smart persona to protest both burlesque’s crassness and Puritanism’s mean-spiritedness. She is more Sister Carrie than Carrie Bradshaw.’ But Shteir also believes that what sustained the fascination ...”

“... means of shifting goods which would otherwise have to be piled up on women’s heads. Whatever Gloria Steinem may have said, a fish may well need a bicycle. According to Dodge, more than 95 per cent of American bicycles are now of the mountain variety; good news for a nation which is in urgent need of exercise, bad news for the landscape. The Bicycle ...”

“... the ‘never-ending club’. In ‘A Bunny’s Tale’, first published in Show magazine in 1963, Gloria Steinem recounts her undercover adventures at Manhattan’s Playboy Club, where she was kitted out in a satin leotard with cantilevered bra, white cuffs, bow tie, three-inch heels, rabbit ears and a fluffy tail. She was ‘programmed like an IBM ...”

“... there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.’ The night before Gloria Steinem had appeared on a chat show and explained millennial women’s support for Sanders: ‘When you’re young, you’re thinking, where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie.’ I watched the Republican debate at the Radisson bar next to a pair ...”

“... first lady of modern times.’ Joan Didion called her smile ‘a study in frozen insincerity’. Gloria Steinem called her ‘the marzipan wife’. The Chicago Tribune berated her in terms that could be applied, mutatis mutandis, to the present Princess of Wales or to Marie Antoinette: ‘Queen Nancy the Extravagant’, an ‘aloof former debutante and ...”

“... women’s movement on student and faculty opinion, which had been tilting towards admitting men. Gloria Steinem delivered an electrifying graduation speech at her alma mater, Smith College, in 1971. Taking women’s political consciousness as her theme, she argued that patriarchy’s ideological hold was still too strong to risk coeducation: ‘Our ...”

“... convinced that Hedda had actually perpetrated the murder. The public was equally divided. Gloria Steinem summarised the spread of opinion among American women: ‘Either you allow yourself to realise that it could have been you, or you’re so invested in making sure it couldn’t have been you that you reject the victim.’ Experts in battered ...”

“... Facebook may have started as a way to rank one woman’s hotness over another’s, but it has been quick to produce its first feminists. Everything goes faster in Silicon Valley: code is written overnight; engineers get around the office on aerodynamic skateboards called RipStiks; a company less than ten years old is worth $104 billion for a day before losing $35 billion in value ...”