In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
GLORIA STEINEMImagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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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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