learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
GLORIA STEINEMEach others’ lives are our best textbooks.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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.
GLORIA STEINEM