Gloria Steinem

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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"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."
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"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."
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"Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days."
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"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving."
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"All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing."
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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."
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"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."
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"The surest way to be alone is to get married."
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"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?"
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"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."
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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."
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"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate."
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"If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story."
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"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."
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"Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular."
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"I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off."
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"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."
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"Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body."
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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."
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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."
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