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Newsday


02/12/1998

"[V-Day is] taking Valentine’s Day, which has been a real exploitation of romance, and making it into a symbol of equal power. That’s important," [Gloria] Steinem said.

...She is childless and, and some say, more stunning now than in her youth when the public began bestowing upon her a level of celebrity that she still abhors.

"I recognize that the term celebrity has a use," she said. "But it has no meaning, no content. I would rather just be a feminist."