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.
GLORIA STEINEMWe choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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