Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Gloria Steinem Quotes Click here for Gloria Steinem books Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." "I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words." "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." "The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." "Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself." "The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin." "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." "A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space." "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?" "Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it." "Most women are one man away from welfare." "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father." "I don't breed well in captivity." "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry." "A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after." |
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