I don’t like writing. I like having written.
GLORIA STEINEMAt 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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