Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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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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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[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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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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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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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