There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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 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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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