Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEMEach others’ lives are our best textbooks.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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 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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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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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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