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GLORIA STEINEM No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to...
GLORIA STEINEM Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.
GLORIA STEINEM Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.
GLORIA STEINEM Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
GLORIA STEINEM Our grief is not a cry for war.
"That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what...
GLORIA STEINEM In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women...
GLORIA STEINEM Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM Or perhaps it's "activist," but on environmental and economic problems, without understanding that p...
GLORIA STEINEM Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...
GLORIA STEINEM If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
GLORIA STEINEM We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It'...
GLORIA STEINEM Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...
GLORIA STEINEM 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.
GLORIA STEINEM Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
GLORIA STEINEM If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on...
GLORIA STEINEM Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come...
GLORIA STEINEM Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
GLORIA STEINEM Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
GLORIA STEINEM Laughter is a rescue. p.204
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