In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
GLORIA STEINEMA lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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[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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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