We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEM[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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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