Helping begins with listening.
GLORIA STEINEMMarriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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