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Quotes by Gloria Steinem
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"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."
Gloria Steinem"We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters."
Gloria Steinem"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
Gloria Steinem"Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom."
Gloria Steinem"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."
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."
Gloria Steinem"Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men."
Gloria Steinem"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."
Gloria Steinem"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"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."
Gloria Steinem"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
Gloria Steinem"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
Gloria Steinem"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate."
Gloria Steinem"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."
Gloria Steinem"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."
Gloria Steinem"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
Gloria Steinem"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"A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves."
Gloria Steinem"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
Gloria Steinem"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space."
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