In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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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 woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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