The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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