By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMFar too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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