A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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 art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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[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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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