A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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 don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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 can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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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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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 future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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