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.
GLORIA STEINEMWe choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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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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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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