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.
GLORIA STEINEMPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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