Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEMThe purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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 why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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