If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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
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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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