If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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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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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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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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