Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
GLORIA STEINEMSo why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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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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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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