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1. "Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it." ~ Gloria Steinem
2. "A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers." ~ Gloria Steinem
3. "Each others' lives are our best textbooks." ~ Gloria Steinem
4. "no one ever got radicalized by being grateful" ~ Gloria Steinem
5. "Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it." ~ Gloria Steinem
6. "When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on." ~ Gloria Steinem
7. "No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life." ~ Gloria Steinem
8. "In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world." ~ Gloria Steinem
9. "We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth." ~ Gloria Steinem
10. "Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect." ~ Gloria Steinem
11. "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." ~ Gloria Steinem
12. "A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual." ~ Gloria Steinem
13. "we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud" ~ Gloria Steinem
14. "If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?" ~ Gloria Steinem
15. "Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men cando." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do." ~ Gloria Steinem
16. "Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist." ~ Gloria Steinem
17. "I do not like to write - I like to have written." ~ Gloria Steinem
18. "One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!" ~ Gloria Steinem
19. "It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution," the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a man on the edge of a crowd looks back defiantly at a policeman — and when that policeman senses a sudden refusal to accept his defining gaze — as the imperceptible moment in which rebellion is born. "All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people," Kapuscinski writes. "They should begin with a psychological chapter — one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly breaks his terror, stops being afraid. This unusual process — sometimes accomplished in an instant, like a shock — demands to be illustrated. Man gets rid of fear and feel free. Without that, there would be no revolution." ~ Gloria Steinem
20. "A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men." ~ Gloria Steinem
21. "Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power." ~ Gloria Steinem
22. "Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age." ~ Gloria Steinem
23. "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." ~ Gloria Steinem
24. "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." ~ Gloria Steinem
25. "We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters." ~ Gloria Steinem
26. "Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father." ~ Gloria Steinem
27. "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?" ~ Gloria Steinem
28. "Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage" ~ Gloria Steinem
29. "In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an idea for theorists and logicians: 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? I leave further improvisation up to you.)" ~ Gloria Steinem
30. "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 labor on 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." ~ Gloria Steinem
31. "Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world." ~ Gloria Steinem
32. "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." ~ Gloria Steinem
33. "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
34. "I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." ~ Gloria Steinem
35. "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry." ~ Gloria Steinem
36. "Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself." ~ Gloria Steinem
37. "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
38. "We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach." ~ Gloria Steinem
39. "A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after." ~ Gloria Steinem
40. "Most women are one man away from welfare." ~ Gloria Steinem
41. "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
42. "It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate." ~ Gloria Steinem
43. "America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people." ~ Gloria Steinem
44. "Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers." ~ Gloria Steinem
45. "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." ~ Gloria Steinem
46. "From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified." ~ Gloria Steinem
47. "We are all trained to be female impersonators." ~ Gloria Steinem
48. "Adalah revolusionar bagi perempuan untuk menyanyikan kepedihan, tapi lebih lagi bila ia menyanyikan seluruh lagu kehidupan" ~ Gloria Steinem
49. "I didn't hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)" ~ Gloria Steinem
50. "Dying seems less sad than having lived too little." ~ Gloria Steinem
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