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 STEINEMThe 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
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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 voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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