But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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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