Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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[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 why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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