If you really want to be lonely, get married.
GLORIA STEINEMI have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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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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