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.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use 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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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Helping begins with listening.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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