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.

Gloria Steinem
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  1. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. - Martha Gellhorn

  2. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,... - Jane Austen

  3. There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. - Audre Lorde

  4. The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-, ’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to... - Mary Daly

  5. Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it. - George Carlin

More Quotes By Gloria Steinem
  1. Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

  2. Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

  3. Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

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

  5. No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin–because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid...

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