Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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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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