Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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