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Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category, just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

– Gloria Steinem

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Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

– Gloria Steinem

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

– Gloria Steinem

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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

– Gloria Steinem

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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.

– Gloria Steinem

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Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.

– Gloria Steinem

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Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

– Gloria Steinem

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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

– Gloria Steinem

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Logic is in the eye of the logician.

– Gloria Steinem

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Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

– Gloria Steinem

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

– Gloria Steinem

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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

– Gloria Steinem

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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.

– Gloria Steinem

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The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

– Gloria Steinem

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

– Gloria Steinem

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

– Gloria Steinem

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Feminists can wear anything they f****** want, they should be able to walk down the street nude and be safe.

– Gloria Steinem

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

When you're young, you're thinking, 'Where are the boys?' The boys are with Bernie.

– Gloria Steinem

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

They're going to get more activist as they get older, and when you're young, you're thinking, 'Where are the boys?' The boys are with Bernie.

– Gloria Steinem

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We can learn on paper and on screen, but the ability to understand, not just learn, happens when we are together and able to empathize.

– Gloria Steinem

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.

– Gloria Steinem

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

I feel this is very much our spiritual and political duty to be part of every peace table, it has often been the case that citizenry -- women and men -- can make progress when it is not possible for the officials to be able to meet at that moment in time.

– Gloria Steinem

Found on CNN 4 years ago World