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niyad

(113,315 posts)
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 09:14 PM Mar 2012

quotes of the day



America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
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. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem

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.
Gloria Steinem

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
Gloria Steinem

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Gloria Steinem

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

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Gloria Steinem

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

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quotes of the day (Original Post) niyad Mar 2012 OP
Happy Birthday Gloria! MarianJack Mar 2012 #1

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
1. Happy Birthday Gloria!
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 09:53 PM
Mar 2012

You're a great lady, a great American and a heroine to me.

BTW, I'm a guy!

PEACE!

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