Gloria Steinem Quotes

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• The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into…
• Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of…
• Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.
• Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
• She is a water bug on the surface of life.
• If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
• We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
• By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
• For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female…
• It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.
• The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
• Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown…
• In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
• Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
• For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should…
• Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
• We teach what we need to learn.
• Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
• Hope is a very unruly emotion.
• Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

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