Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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Helping begins with listening.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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