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.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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