We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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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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