Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEMMost American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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