The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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I 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.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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