Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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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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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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