We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEMThe story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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Feminism 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.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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