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.
GLORIA STEINEMI 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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