Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
GLORIA STEINEMWhatever you want to do,do it now.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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 feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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