I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEMThere 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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.
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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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[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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