So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
GLORIA STEINEMBut 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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