"Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers……" — Gloria Steinem
"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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298 Quotes by Gloria Steinem
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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