For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
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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.
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If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
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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.
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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.