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.
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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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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