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.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat 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.
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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Helping begins with listening.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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[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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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