Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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