Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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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 what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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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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