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.
GLORIA STEINEMAt 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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 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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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