Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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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 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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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