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.
GLORIA STEINEMThere are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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