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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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I 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.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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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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