Best Quotes by Gloria Steinem (Top 10)
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
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A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
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Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
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Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
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