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 STEINEMSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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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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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 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.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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