Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMBut 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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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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