when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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