American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -
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.
Gloria Steinem
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Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
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I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We do what we see, not what we're told, so an incomplete story of this country damages everyone.
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Law and justice are not always the same.
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We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.
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If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
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There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.
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Women's progress has been a collective effort.
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Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
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Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
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