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Gloria Steinem Quotes: You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.
         

You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.


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God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.



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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.



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



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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.



The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

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Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.



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