Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
GLORIA STEINEMHelping begins with listening.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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