Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
GLORIA STEINEMThe authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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