Actually, one of the books I’m currently reading attributes that quote to Steinem, before her 2002 marriage. Perhaps she was simply parroting one of her deities.
No matter. It is the sick feminist thought that counts, not which diseased feminist uttered it, eh?
Gertrude Stein wasn’t a cartoon leftist like the feminists of today. She was on very friendly terms with Mencken and other conservative/libertarian writers of her day. Her biographer said of her,
“she disliked Trotsky as much as Franco, and Roosevelt as much as either, and she referred to liberals ... as ‘people with unhappy childhoods’. It was a position that irritated her friends. When William Rogers sent her a packet of American corn seeds and warned her not to give any of the corn to her fascist neighbours in Bilignin, Gertrude returned the gift with a request: ‘please send us unpolitical corn.’ Why shouldn’t she give her friends the corn, she asked, ‘why not if the fascists like it and we like the fascists ...’”
She was an artist at a time that art could still be apolitical.