Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMA good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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