I don’t like writing. I like having written.
GLORIA STEINEMThe purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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 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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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 feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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 first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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