A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
GLORIA STEINEMHousewives are dependent creatures who are still children, parasites.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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