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 STEINEMI 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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[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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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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