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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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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 good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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