American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -
I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.
Gloria Steinem
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There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
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If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ask a woman, she'll tell you she looks worse.
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The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
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It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
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A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
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I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.
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What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.
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It's easier to blame the person with less power.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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