Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."
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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."
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"Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power."
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"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
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"I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner."
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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."
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"What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married."
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"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing."
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"If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare."
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"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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"The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please."
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"Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie."
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"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
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"I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives."
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"The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts."
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"I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers."
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"Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace."
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"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one."
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"Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist."
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"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
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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."
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