Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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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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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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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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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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