by Alex Strachan, The National Post - Aug 10, 2011

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Isn’t it ironic, Steinem was asked, that what she fought so hard for has been rejected by the generation that came later?

Steinem was candid in her reply, and perhaps surprising.

“No,” she said simply. “This generation of young women is actually much more feminist than we ever were. If you look at the public opinion polls, they’re actually much more supportive of all the issues of equality. And my question to the young woman who is dressing as you describe is: Is she doing it because she wants to? Is she body-proud? Is she sexuality-proud? Because then, I say, great”

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“If you look at any social movement — if you think of the suffragists, abolitionists and other movements, they had to last about 100 years to be really absorbed into a culture. And we’re 40 years into this. So I don’t know how to break it to you, but we have, like, 60 years to go”

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“We have to be careful not to have terminal gratitude, as I think of it,” she said. “We need to be always looking forward. Nothing in inexorable. Nothing. It depends on what you and I do every day, all of us here, every day. It depends on the language we use with each other. It depends on whether we tell each other our salaries, to find out who’s not getting paid. All these movements are inextricably connected.”

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