Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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