The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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