Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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