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Gloria Steinem Quotes

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1934

Topics

Violence Person May Justified Then

I'm a defender of the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

Constitution Amendment Second

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jean de La Fontaine

Friend Fool Name Nothing Everyone

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Worth You Choose Pay Thing

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

Hippie Up Grew Essentially

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Time Presence Something Understood

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

Identity Class Race Colour Up About

I know it sounds silly, but it takes some time getting used to all the cameras in your face. I think it's like playing jazz. After I learn the rules, I can have fun and play a little bit.

Time Fun Have Fun Face Think Learn

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

Truth You Mouth Sometimes Hard Eat

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Louis Kronenberger

Age Time Old Age Week Goal Say

Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Feel Fiction Something Works Makes

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.

Think Feel You Artist Play True

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

Me Want Idols Maybe John Goodman

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