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.
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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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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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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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