Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMA movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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