Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMShow me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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 want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Helping begins with listening.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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