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Gloria Steinem

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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
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Women empowerment begins at home!
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There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspe...
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There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
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There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
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There's nothing more human than two people making love.
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There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
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Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
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Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.
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There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.
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Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.
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There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
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I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
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Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
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There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.
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Nothing is more theater-based than wrestling. It's Greek-tragedy-level theater.
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There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.
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Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.
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Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
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Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
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Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
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I can't mate in captivity.
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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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