Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
GLORIA STEINEMWe’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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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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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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