Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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 don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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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 I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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