Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
GLORIA STEINEMI think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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 want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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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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