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“The truth is that every country has its own organic feminism. Far more than communism, capitalism, or any other philosophy I can think of, it is a grassroots event. It grows in women’s heads and hearts.” quote by Gloria Steinem — Download Open image

““The truth is that every country has its own organic feminism. Far more than communism, capitalism, or any other philosophy I can think of, it is a grassroots event. It grows in women’s heads and hearts.””

Gloria Steinem

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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

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Nothing will happen automatically. Change depends on what you and I do every day.

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Women are never again going to be mindless coffee-makers or mindless policy-makers in politics.

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I don't know Beyoncé, but I have the impression that she's sincere, that she really is a feminist and wanted to put the word…

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I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

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Sadomasochiasm - which we know very well doesn't exist in societies that don't have child abuse - is regarded some sort of natural sexual…

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Behave like everything you do matters.

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“Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.”

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