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.
GLORIA STEINEMAny 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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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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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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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 first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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