Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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[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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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