There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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 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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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