Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
GLORIA STEINEMLife after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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