The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
GLORIA STEINEMI 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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