[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.
GLORIA STEINEMThere 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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 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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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