[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.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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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.
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