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121 " America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people. "
― Gloria Steinem
122 " Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak. "
― Gloria Steinem , My Life on the Road
123 " Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage "
124 " Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all. "
125 " Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. "
126 " Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. "
127 " Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count. "
128 " If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye. "
129 " Each others' lives are our best textbooks. "
130 " I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn’t criticize. "
131 " Swiftboating enters the English language as a verb that means attacking strength instead of weakness. In feminist and other social justice contexts, this has long been called trashing, attacking leaders for daring to write, speak, or lead at all. Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad. p.189 "
132 " We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence. "
133 " Always ask the turtle. "
134 " 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. "
135 " A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers. "
136 " It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution," the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a man on the edge of a crowd looks back defiantly at a policeman — and when that policeman senses a sudden refusal to accept his defining gaze — as the imperceptible moment in which rebellion is born. "All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people," Kapuscinski writes. "They should begin with a psychological chapter — one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly breaks his terror, stops being afraid. This unusual process — sometimes accomplished in an instant, like a shock — demands to be illustrated. Man gets rid of fear and feel free. Without that, there would be no revolution. "
― Gloria Steinem , Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
137 " Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." "
138 " No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence. "
139 " Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. "
140 " Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative. "