Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
GLORIA STEINEMIf what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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 must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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