Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMThe 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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