It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
GLORIA STEINEMThe voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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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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Helping begins with listening.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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