Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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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 have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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