Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
GLORIA STEINEMLaw and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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I 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.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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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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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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