There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
GLORIA STEINEMThe origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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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 art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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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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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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