Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.


Gloria Steinem

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.]
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Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power
GLORIA STEINEM
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn an...
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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be d...
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It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for somethi...
GLORIA STEINEM
It's important not to stigmatize the word Republican, because the great tragedy is an extremist grou...
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
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Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
GLORIA STEINEM
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM
So, whatever you want to do, just do it....Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEM
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it
GLORIA STEINEM
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God
GLORIA STEINEM
There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.
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Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especiall...
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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
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so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEM
I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie’s novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman w...
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The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what ...
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I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the wo...
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No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to...
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Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.
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Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
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Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
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Our grief is not a cry for war.
"That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what...
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In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women...
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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
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Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that p...
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Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...
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If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
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We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It'...
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Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...
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The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors...
GLORIA STEINEM
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
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If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on...
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Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come...
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Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
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Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
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