Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMI 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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