#eve

Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year. So, we have to ask ourselves: Aren't we willing to pay a tenth of that over several years for Europe's unity? ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#average #billion #cost #europe #euros

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#every #every day #just #me #out

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#any #call #conservative #depends #even

The human race has improved everything, but the human race. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#human #human race #improved #race

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. ↗

— George Steiner

#bach #day #evening #go #his

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. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#after #believe #con #corporations #death

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

— Gloria Steinem

#before #combining #come #existed #exists

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. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#class #days #even #few #future

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#masculinity #never #power #solve #until

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#ferraro #geraldine #get #get married #learned