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.
GLORIA STEINEMBeing married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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