I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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But 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.
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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 want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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