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.
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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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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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[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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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