Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
GLORIA STEINEMMost American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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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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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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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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