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.
GLORIA STEINEMWhenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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