Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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