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Gloria Steinem
March 25, 1934 -
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist

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.

   

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

   

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.

   

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

   

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

   

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

   

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

   

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

   

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

   

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

   

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

   

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

   

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.

   

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

   

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.

   

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

   

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

   

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

   

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

   

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

   

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