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“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
― Gloria Steinem

“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 . . . She will need her sisterhood.”
― Gloria Steinem

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
― Gloria Steinem

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry”
― Gloria Steinem

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”
― Gloria Steinem

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”
― Gloria Steinem

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud”
― Gloria Steinem

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.”
― Gloria Steinem

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”
― Gloria Steinem

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.”
― Gloria Steinem

“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. ”
― Gloria Steinem

“Each others' lives are our best textbooks.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." ”
― Gloria Steinem

“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”
― Gloria Steinem

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.”
― Gloria Steinem