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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem
Marriage, Witty, Work
Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Gloria Steinem
Marriage, Jobs, Sex

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Gloria Steinem
Funny, Marriage, Witty
Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Fourth - and by Far the Most Recent - 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990)

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

Gloria Steinem
Relationship, Marriage, Married

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

Gloria Steinem
Marriage, Men, Gambling

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Gloria Steinem
Marriage, Single, Wedding

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

Gloria Steinem
Marriage, Husband, Feminism
Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.331, Open Road Media

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Gloria Steinem
Marriage, Men, Differences

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