Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
GLORIA STEINEMHousewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
GLORIA STEINEMFeminism 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 STEINEMNo one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
GLORIA STEINEMShow me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
GLORIA STEINEMPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
GLORIA STEINEMClinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
GLORIA STEINEMIf what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
GLORIA STEINEM[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.
GLORIA STEINEMWithout leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
GLORIA STEINEMThere 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.
GLORIA STEINEMwhen 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 may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEMI don’t like writing. I like having written.
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