Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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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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