Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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 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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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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