So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
GLORIA STEINEMHelping begins with listening.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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 have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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Helping begins with listening.
GLORIA STEINEM