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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.
Written by Gloria Steinem
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Written by Gloria Steinem
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.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Most women are one man away from welfare.
Written by Gloria Steinem
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
Written by Gloria Steinem
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Written by Gloria Steinem
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Written by Gloria Steinem
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Written by Gloria Steinem
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Law and justice are not always the same.
Written by Gloria Steinem
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.
Written by Gloria Steinem
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Written by Gloria Steinem
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Written by Gloria Steinem
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.
Written by Gloria Steinem
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Written by Gloria Steinem
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
Written by Gloria Steinem
The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Written by Gloria Steinem
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Written by Gloria Steinem
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.
Written by Gloria Steinem
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Written by Gloria Steinem
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.
Written by Gloria Steinem
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?
Written by Gloria Steinem

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