imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
GLORIA STEINEMI want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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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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[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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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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