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21 " The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence. "
― Gloria Steinem , Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
22 " Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out. "
― Gloria Steinem , Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
23 " Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy. "
24 " The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us "
― Gloria Steinem
25 " I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. "
26 " A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. "
27 " Women of all groups were measurably more likely than their male counterparts to vote for equality, health, and education, and against violence as a way of solving conflict. It wasn't about biology, but experience. "
― Gloria Steinem , My Life on the Road
28 " Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims. "
― Gloria Steinem , The Trouble With Rich Women (Singles Classic)
29 " There are really not many jobs that actually acquire a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone. "
30 " I’m not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It’s time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers. "
31 " When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. "
32 " Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't. "
33 " My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you. "
34 " As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism. "
35 " Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key. "
36 " The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too. "
37 " Everyone has a home but me. "
38 " I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. "
39 " I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. "
40 " An older man who seems to be the leader of the Jesus Tshirt group says that the Bible forbids abortion in its commandment “Thou shall not kill.”But being in the Bible Belt, people really know their Bible, and an older woman cites Exodus 21:22–23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies.Thus the Bible is making clear, that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life. "