Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMHousewives are dependent creatures who are still children, parasites.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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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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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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