Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's

The words of Gloria Steinem, prophet of modern equality, rise like a trumpet to awaken the world: “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.” In this saying, she unveils the true heart of feminism—not as a narrow victory for the few, but as a sweeping transformation for the many. Her vision is not of scraps from the table, but of a new table altogether, laden with justice.

The ancients, too, spoke of such renewal. When Solon of Athens rewrote the laws to release men from debt slavery, he did not merely rescue a handful of citizens but reshaped the whole of society. Steinem’s words echo that wisdom: that true change is not charity, but reconstruction. Equity is not found in dividing an old pie unequally, but in baking anew, so that none are excluded and all may share in abundance.

Her words also answer those who sought to belittle the women’s movement as selfish ambition. To Steinem, the cause of women was never about elevating a single figure into power, but about transforming the conditions of work, family, law, and culture for women everywhere. She reminds us that feminism is not rivalry with men, nor competition among women, but a collective rising. The pie she imagines is not scarce, but abundant—an image of hope, vision, and creation.

Consider the story of the suffragists in the early twentieth century. They did not march only for their own ballots but for the generations of women yet unborn. Many of them would die before tasting the fruit of their struggle, but they baked the pie from which millions would eat. Steinem’s metaphor honors that sacrifice, showing that movements of justice are always about the future as much as the present.

Let the generations remember: feminism is not the pursuit of privilege for a few, but the struggle to shape a new order where women are neither silenced nor sidelined. To bake a new pie is to imagine a world where dignity is not rationed, but multiplied. Steinem’s wisdom is both warning and promise: that the work is not finished until the feast of justice includes every woman, everywhere. And until that day, the ovens of change must never grow cold.