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Gloria Steinem

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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Collective Effort Equality Feminism Story Struggle Women
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Easy Give Up Respect Self Love Validation
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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Enough Part Power Process Strong
It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Chance Corruption Men Women
[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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Around Golden Men Need Ourselves Rule Self Love Way Women Work Writing
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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Destroy Difference Justice Law
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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Graduation Marriage Men Myself Yourself
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Adopt Care Economic Equality Flexible Gender Leave Paid Sick Simplicity Support Value Way Work
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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Evolution Hands Human Poet Race Writing
So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Act Action Essential Fools Inspirational Yourself
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Barrier Boundary Feminism Gender Serious Sex
when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Believe Difficult Experience Heart Intertwined Love Pain
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Difference Future People Planning Poor Rich
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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Bake Creation Existence Fair Feminism Job Life Pieces Women
The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Equality Man Vote Women
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.
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Action Ambition Choice Day Dreams Form Future Hope Kind Music Need Nurture Poetry Talent Thinking Value Violence

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