If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
GLORIA STEINEMNo 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Helping begins with listening.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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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.
GLORIA STEINEM