For women, all women, ...

For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it\'s crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.
For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.
 Gloria Steinem

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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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 Gloria Steinem
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
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 Gloria Steinem
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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 Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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 Gloria Steinem
I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault.
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 Gloria Steinem