Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
GLORIA STEINEMHousewives are dependent creatures who are still children, parasites.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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[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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