Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEMOnce we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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