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.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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 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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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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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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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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