For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of …

Gloria Steinem
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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. ✨ Gloria Steinem (2017). Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within, p.855, Open Road Media
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured. ✨ Gloria Steinem (2012). Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, p.538, Open Road Media
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. ✨ … ▶
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us ✨ Gloria Steinem (2012). Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, p.27, Open Road Media
Whatever you want to do,do it now. ✨ Gloria Steinem's Commencement Address at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. May 17, 1987.
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. ✨ Gloria Steinem (2012). Moving Beyond Words: Essa … ▶

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