Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEMThere are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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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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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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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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