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From Quotes by Gloria Steinem
- Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
- I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.
- If you add up all the forms of genocide, from female infanticide and genital mutilation to so-called honor crimes, sex trafficking, and domestic abuse, everything,…
- Girls are taught to view their bodies as unending projects to work on, whereas boys from a young age, are taught to view their bodies…
- Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged…
- Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going…
- Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you…
- Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole,…
- I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty,…
- The moment we find the reason behind an emotion Â… the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too.…
- For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or…
- Most women are one man away from welfare.
- From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
- Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
- What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
- In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
- The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change…
- The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There…
- Liberation does not come from outside.
- I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older.…
- You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as…
- Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
- If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.
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