Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEMThe future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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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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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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.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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