The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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