Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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