We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEMIn order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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