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.
GLORIA STEINEMMost American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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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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[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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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