Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEMClinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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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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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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