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Gloria Steinem has 306 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to…
— Alice Walker
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It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with…
— Gloria Steinem
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name and apparently that's the key to the whole…
— Paula Poundstone
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Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.
— Penn Jillette
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I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
— Paula Poundstone
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I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed…
— A.M. Homes
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Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.
— Nelson DeMille
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If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you…
— John Berendt
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