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Gloria Steinem

  • Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power... Gloria Steinem {view}
  • 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.... Gloria Steinem {view}
  • The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn... Gloria Steinem {view}
  • For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.... Gloria Steinem {view}
  • Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.... Gloria Steinem {view}
  • 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.... Gloria Steinem {view}
  • Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it... Gloria Steinem {view}
  • Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.... Gloria Steinem {view}
  • Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.... Gloria Steinem {view}