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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.

Gloria Steinem

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
GLORIA STEINEM

Appearance Diverse Expression Freedom Men Rock Variety Women
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM

Empowerment Power Process
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Graduation Marriage Men Myself Yourself
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Bake Creation Existence Fair Feminism Job Life Pieces Women
imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
GLORIA STEINEM

Believe Born Creation Imagination True
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEM

People Person Relationship Right Search
Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
GLORIA STEINEM

Inspirational Limitless Marriage Permanent Perspective
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
GLORIA STEINEM

Compose End Feeling Motion Move Movement People Warmth
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Environment Feminism Human Purpose Understand Unique
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Adopt Care Economic Equality Flexible Gender Leave Paid Sick Simplicity Support Value Way Work
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEM

Art Behavior Helping Moments Small Value Worth
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 STEINEM

Adventure Age Country Experience Life
Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEM

Choice Feminism One Liner Women
If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
GLORIA STEINEM

Change Feet One Liner Shoe
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
GLORIA STEINEM

Difference Future People Planning Poor Rich
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEM

Authority Color Government Institution Skin

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