The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEMFeminism 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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