"If you hear a statistic, you will make……" — Gloria Steinem
"If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic."
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298 Quotes by Gloria Steinem
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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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