Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
GLORIA STEINEMInner space is the real frontier.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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 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.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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.
GLORIA STEINEM