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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.

Gloria Steinem

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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Bake Creation Existence Fair Feminism Job Life Pieces Women
Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
GLORIA STEINEM

Human Power Race Show Transformation
Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
GLORIA STEINEM

Character Dangerous Intelligence
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEM

Authority Color Government Institution Skin
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 STEINEM

Adventure Age Country Experience Life
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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Enough Part Power Process Strong
If you really want to be lonely, get married.
GLORIA STEINEM

Lonely Marriage One Liner Yourself
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEM

Age Generation Life Live Mom Ourselves
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Environment Feminism Human Purpose Understand Unique
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM

Marriage Ourselves Women Empowerment
I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
GLORIA STEINEM

Acceptance Authentic Believe Celebration Myself People Question
Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
GLORIA STEINEM

Destroy Difference Justice Law
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
GLORIA STEINEM

Collective Effort Equality Feminism Story Struggle Women
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEM

Dreams Excitement Imagination Lose Planning Possibility
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Age Conservative. Youth Feminist Lose More Older Power Radical Wait Young
There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
GLORIA STEINEM

Belief Change Cure Injustice Naive Order Point

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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