Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEMA woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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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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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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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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