I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMBehave like everything you do matters.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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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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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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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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