The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
GLORIA STEINEMNo 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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 think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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