Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
GLORIA STEINEM[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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use 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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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