Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
GLORIA STEINEMI don’t like writing. I like having written.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Helping begins with listening.
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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