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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 Moving Beyond Words (1994)

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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Moving Beyond Words (1994)

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four.

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.

As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, "Oh no, that's women's work." Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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