"Having someone who looks like us but thinks……" — Gloria Steinem
"Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all."
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298 Quotes by Gloria Steinem
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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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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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