You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Helping begins with listening.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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But 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.
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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 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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