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…
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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…
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Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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She is a water bug on the surface of life.
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If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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…
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It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.
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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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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…
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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…
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Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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We teach what we need to learn.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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