So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
GLORIA STEINEMIntelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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