Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
GLORIA STEINEMThe authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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 authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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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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