Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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 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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[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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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