A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Women 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.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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