“Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.”
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“Hope is a very unruly emotion.”
HopeAll Quotes by Gloria Steinem
“Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.”
Family“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
Power“It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.”
Death“If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?”
Men“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
Dreams“If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare.”
Women“Most women are one man away from welfare.”
Women“I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.”
Romantic“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”
Change“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”
Women“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.”
Marriage“Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.”
Women“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
Power“Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.”
Women“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
Funny“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”
Change“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
Courage“If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.”
Society“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day a movement is only people moving.”
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