Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMThe authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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