[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.
GLORIA STEINEMIt’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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