when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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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.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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