So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
GLORIA STEINEMIt’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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