By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMEmpathy is the most radical of human emotions.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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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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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.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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