American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -
I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.
Gloria Steinem
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I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead.'
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A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
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Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.
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Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.
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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.
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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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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
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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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Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.
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The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
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The danger of the Internet is cocooning with the like-minded online - of sending an email or Twitter and confusing that with action - while the real corporate and military and government centers of power go right on.
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