A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
GLORIA STEINEMBeing married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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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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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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