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.
GLORIA STEINEMWe need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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