We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEMIf the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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