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.
GLORIA STEINEMWhatever you want to do,do it now.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Helping begins with listening.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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