Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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