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.
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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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