So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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 the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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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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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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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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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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