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.
GLORIA STEINEMI 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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