By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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The 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.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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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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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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