We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
GLORIA STEINEMThe future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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 authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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