Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
GLORIA STEINEMBeing married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Helping begins with listening.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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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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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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