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 STEINEMThere is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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