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.
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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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 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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Helping begins with listening.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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