learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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