Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
GLORIA STEINEMLaw and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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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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