Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEMwhen pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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 story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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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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