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.
GLORIA STEINEMAt 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women 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.
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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.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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 voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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