Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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