Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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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 lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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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 yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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There 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.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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