A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEMFar too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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