Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
GLORIA STEINEMSo whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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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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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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