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.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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