If you really want to be lonely, get married.
GLORIA STEINEMWe choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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