In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
GLORIA STEINEMI think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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 lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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.
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