Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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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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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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