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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6942/">Quotes by <em>Steinem, Gloria</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Gloria Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist and journalist and a spokeswoman for women's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"The only thing I can't stand is discomfort."

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"For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique."

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"The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government."

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"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."

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"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."

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

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"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."

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"Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage."

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"By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God."

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"Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it."

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