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.
GLORIA STEINEMIf you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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