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
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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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 may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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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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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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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’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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