If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
GLORIA STEINEMThe first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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