If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
GLORIA STEINEMThe authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Helping begins with listening.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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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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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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