The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEMInner space is the real frontier.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The 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
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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