Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
GLORIA STEINEMNo 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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