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.
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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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