I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMwhen pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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