A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM[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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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No 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.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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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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