Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEMShow me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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