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.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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