I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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 authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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[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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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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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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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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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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