Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
GLORIA STEINEMThe 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
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Helping begins with listening.
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