I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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 to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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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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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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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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What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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