Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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