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.
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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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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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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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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