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 STEINEMIn order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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