Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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 voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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