The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEMA lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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