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Our thighs, our selves
“If Gloria Steinem had told the whole truth -- while she stood photogenically on podiums, her long striped hair tucked into tinted aviator glasses, issuing gnomic homilies like 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle' -- she might have sounded like Bridget Jones. God knows, both women worry about the size of their thighs, although only one of them has gone public with that undignified anxiety.”
-- Daphne Merken, pointing out similarities between fictional Bridget Jones -- the flighty heroine of Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones' Diary" -- and feminist leader and author Gloria Steinem. Quoted in the Aug. 3 New Yorker.

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		`Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y` Our thighs, our selves “If Gloria Steinem had told the whole truth -- while she stood photogenically on podiums, her long striped hair tucked into tinted aviator glasses, issuing gnomic homilies like 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle' -- she might have sounded like Bridget Jones. God knows, both women worry about the size of their thighs, although only one of them has gone public with that undignified anxiety.” -- Daphne Merken, pointing out similarities between fictional Bridget Jones -- the flighty heroine of Helen Fielding's "Bridget Jones' Diary" -- and feminist leader and author Gloria Steinem. Quoted in the Aug. 3 New Yorker.