Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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