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Letter "G" » Gloria Steinem Quotes
«We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.»
«The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.»
«Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.»
«Logic is in the eye of the logician.»
«Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.»
«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.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
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Activist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
bodies,
deserving,
families,
female,
female body,
inferiority,
lets,
let us know,
needy,
signal,
signaling
«Most women are one man away from welfare.»
«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.»
«However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
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Activist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
airtight,
all four,
ambiguous,
authoritarianism,
expand,
inevitably,
justified,
progression,
roles,
sugar-coated,
sugarcoated,
unequal
«At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.»