"Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing……" — Gloria Steinem
"Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself."
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298 Quotes by Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem has 298 quotes on this site.
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The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air…
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Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Conforming Quotes
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything…
— J. G. Ballard
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I don't care much about conforming.
— Mayim Bialik
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor…
— Jerry Bridges
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Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
— Stephen Covey
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If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is…
— Hope Solo
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Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But…
— Christina Hendricks
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For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On…
— Jonathan Turley
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