American - Activist | March 25, 1934 -
When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.
Gloria Steinem
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I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.
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Women are liked better when they lose.
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There's no shortage of great young activists.
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Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.
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The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.
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We're never going to have democratic countries or peaceful countries until we have democratic or peaceful families.
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The surest way to be alone is to get married.
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'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don't have food ads unless you have recipes. You don't get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women's magazine does.
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Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement.
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In Sweden, both parents take care of the children.
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You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporate boards, in tenured positions in academia, and as forepeople in factories.
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