Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
GLORIA STEINEMMost American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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