I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
GLORIA STEINEMI 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.
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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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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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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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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