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.
GLORIA STEINEMIn order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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