By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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 art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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