Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.


Gloria Steinem

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Now they have a riddle.

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The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for.
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For all men kill the thing they love
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There is only one thing better than being happy, and you'll find out about that later!
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
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...pride for men is like love for women. Very strong. The most important thing for men is pride.
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Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
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Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
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I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, ther...
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It lessens the historical saliency of King for younger kids. It is one thing to read King and anothe...
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The critical thing they delivered on is what people, including analysts, were expecting. They have b...
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Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.
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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
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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
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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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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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.
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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...
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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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Laughter is a rescue. p.204
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