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Gloria Steinem

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Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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You are remembered for the rules you break.
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I don't need you to take care of me."

"No, you need a kick up the arse.
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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.
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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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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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