Gloria Steinem - Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions (1983)

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The less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa — blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men — yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

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Writing is the only thing that... when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead.

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In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression.... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds — and very little love.

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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.

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

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Many of us have raised our daughters more like our sons, but too few have raised our sons more like our daughters.

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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical answer that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

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

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