So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
GLORIA STEINEMBehave like everything you do matters.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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