The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEMAny 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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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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