Hope is a very unruly emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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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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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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