We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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