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 STEINEMClinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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 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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