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.
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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 feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary 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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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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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