The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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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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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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