Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEM
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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