The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
GLORIA STEINEMOne day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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 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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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