Gloria Steinem Short Quotes

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Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

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Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it.

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The alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist.

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Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

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Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

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Most women in this country are only one man away from welfare.

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This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

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Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

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We teach what we need to learn and we write what we need to know.

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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.

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Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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There's more variation among human groups than between human groups.

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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

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The act of acting morally is behaving AS IF EVERYTHING WE DO MATTERS.

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The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

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Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

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Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

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This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know?

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Why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

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If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

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What would happen if we listened to children as much as we talked to them?

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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizens' skin.

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If young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

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Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

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I'm at the age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.

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Perhaps men should think twice before making widowhood our only path to power.

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I can sometimes deal with men as equals and therefore can afford to like them.

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