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" I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. "
Gloria Steinem
Person
Been
Always
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" Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them. "
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" This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. "
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" Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. "
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" A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. "
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" From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. "
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" 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. "
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" Hope is a very unruly emotion. "
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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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Power
" If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit. "
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Going
Word
Vomit
" Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward. "
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Opposite
Depression
" Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot. "
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Party
I Believe
More
" It's easier to blame the person with less power. "
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Power
Blame
Easier
" A bad facelift is like a bad toupee. "
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Like
Bad
Facelift
" Men are victims of their own impulses. "
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Men
Victims
Own
" 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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Women
American
Balance
" The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped. "
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System
Bottom
Where
" The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. "
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Only
The Only Thing
Stand
" Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it. "
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Sing
Walk
Talk
" A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space. "
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Small
Prison
Pedestal
" I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children. "
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Help
Children
Media
" Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular. "
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Perfect
Irregular
Beauty
" God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. "
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Back
Questions
Goddess
" In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be. "
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Fat
Own
My Own
" We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. "
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Tell
Our
Values
" How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable. "
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Could
" The surest way to be alone is to get married. "
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Get Married
Married
" Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts. "
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" The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party. "
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" Women are liked better when they lose. "
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Women Are
Better
Lose