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 STEINEMAt 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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[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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Helping begins with listening.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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