Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
GLORIA STEINEMNo 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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