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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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