Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
GLORIA STEINEMThe voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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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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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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