when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
GLORIA STEINEMI have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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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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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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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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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 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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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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