Feel Quotes

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Gloria Steinem

Tags: Hope Very Emotion

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Gloria Steinem

Tags: Work Social Value

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

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Tags: Life Brain Began

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

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Tags: Power Person Less

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

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Tags: Our Tell Looking

In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.

Gloria Steinem

Tags: Women Way Group

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

Gloria Steinem

Tags: Only Thing Stand

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

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Tags: Women Society Way

If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.

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Tags: Women Man Young

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

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I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

Gloria Steinem

Tags: Always Been Myself

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

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Tags: Like Little Woman

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

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Tags: Women Freedom More

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.

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Tags: You People Being

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

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Tags: Way Live Same

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.

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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

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Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.

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Tags: You Very Your

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

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Tags: Women How Look

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

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Tags: Women Our How

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

Gloria Steinem

Tags: Women Get Never

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

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Tags: Something Only Thing

One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.

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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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Tags: People Only Feel

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But the last person I would want to go down in history as is Hugh Hefner.

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Tags: History Think I Think

Having one's traditional role questioned is not a very comfortable experience, perhaps especially for women, who have been able to remain children, and to benefit from work they did not and could not do.

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Tags: Work Women Experience

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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Tags: Family Who Know

I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'

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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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Tags: Like Who Will

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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Tags: Very Lot Over

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?

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Tags: Women Men Like

If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story.

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Tags: Women Technology You