By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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 men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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