Best quotes by Gloria Steinem on Women

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

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• ‟ The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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• ‟ Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

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• ‟ The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.

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

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• ‟ 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?

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• ‟ I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

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• ‟ Most women are one man away from welfare.

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• ‟ Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

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• ‟ All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

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• ‟ The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

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• ‟ Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

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

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• ‟ Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

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• ‟ Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

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• ‟ I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

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