Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEMSo whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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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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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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