Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
GLORIA STEINEMClinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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