American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.
Gloria Steinem
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Whatever each individual woman is facing - only she knows her biggest challenge.
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Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.
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Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.
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In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds.
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These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.
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If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
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The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.
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I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.
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The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.
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For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.
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I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'
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