Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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At 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.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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