Gloria Steinem
Quotations
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“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” -Gloria Steinem
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“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.” -Gloria Steinem
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“If you say, I’m for equal pay, that’s a reform. But if you say. I’m a feminist, that’s a transformation of society.” -Gloria Steinem
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“I’d like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I’d have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.” -Gloria Steinem
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“The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.” -Gloria Steinem
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“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.” -Gloria Steinem
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“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” -Gloria Steinem
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“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” -Gloria Steinem
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“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.” -Gloria Steinem
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“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there’s no turning back.” -Gloria Steinem
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“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.” -Gloria Steinem
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“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” -Gloria Steinem
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“For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” -Gloria Steinem
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“It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous.” -Gloria Steinem
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“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” -Gloria Steinem
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“If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?” -Gloria Steinem
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“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.” -Gloria Steinem
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