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Gloria Steinem: “Women have convinced ourselves that we can do what men can do. But we haven't convinced ourselves and therefore haven't convinced our country, that men can do what women can do.
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Gloria Steinem: “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
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Gloria Steinem: “Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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Gloria Steinem: “The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
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Gloria Steinem: “Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Gloria Steinem: “The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
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Gloria Steinem: “The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.
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Gloria Steinem: “We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
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Gloria Steinem: “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Gloria Steinem: “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Gloria Steinem: “Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Gloria Steinem: “Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Gloria Steinem: “If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
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Gloria Steinem: “This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.
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Gloria Steinem: “If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
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Gloria Steinem: “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
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Gloria Steinem: “I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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