Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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 what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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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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Any 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.
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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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