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.

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"The cancer served a real purpose, making me a little bit more conscious of time."

- Gloria Steinem

Awareness

"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."

- Gloria Steinem

Awareness

"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."

- Gloria Steinem

Relationships

"Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited."

- Gloria Steinem

Relationships

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

- Gloria Steinem

Courage

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity