I don’t like writing. I like having written.
GLORIA STEINEMFeminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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What 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.
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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