Danielle Friedman

“As she watched friends begin to exercise in the seventies and eighties, her perspective shifted. “For women to enjoy physical strength is a collective revolution,” Steinem later wrote. “I’ve gradually come to believe that society’s acceptance of muscular women may be one of the most intimate, visceral measures of change,” she also observed. “Yes, we need progress everywhere, but an increase in our physical strength could have more impact on the everyday lives of most women than the occasional role model in the boardroom or in the White House.”
― Danielle Friedman, Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

“Freedom means different things to different women. In the late seventies, while thousands were lacing up jogging shoes, others were slipping into a leotard for the first time since girlhood—and slipping out of the house to dance to Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” until their spandex was soaked with sweat. Freedom, for them, was aerobic dancing.”
― Danielle Friedman, Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World