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
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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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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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 are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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