There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
GLORIA STEINEMBecause when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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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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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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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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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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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