Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
GLORIA STEINEMAny 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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