Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEMSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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