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Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.

Feminism…is not ‘women as victims’ but women refusing to be victims.
– Gloria Steinem

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  1. You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. – Ursula K Le Guin
  2. Most women are one man away from welfare. – Gloria Steinem
  3. A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. – Gloria Steinem
  4. Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. – Gloria Steinem
  5. Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn’t for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out. – Gloria Steinem
  6. The idea that women are ‘our own worst enemies’ forces us to admit that we don’t have the power to be, even if we wanted too. – Gloria Steinem
  7. What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won’t get the vim to step out of their situations. – Israelmore Ayivor
  8. Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. – Julian Assange
  9. Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it. – Gloria Steinem
  10. Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice. – Gloria Steinem
  11. As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous. – Gloria Steinem
  12. Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning – Gloria Steinem
  13. I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don’t express it, we loose faith in ourselves. – Gloria Steinem
  14. We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. – Gloria Steinem
  15. Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy. – Gloria Steinem
  16. The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us – Gloria Steinem
  17. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. – Gloria Steinem
  18. A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. – Gloria Steinem
  19. There are really not many jobs that actually acquire a ????? or a ??????, and all other occupations should be open to everyone. – Gloria Steinem
  20. When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. – Gloria Steinem
  21. Don’t write when you’re angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don’t. – Gloria Steinem
  22. As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism. – Gloria Steinem
  23. Everyone has a home but me. – Gloria Steinem
  24. Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle. – Gloria Steinem
  25. Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don’t. – Gloria Steinem
  26. Dying seems less sad than having lived too little. – Gloria Steinem
  27. In Indian Country,- he says, -œwe have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning-”and more will. – Gloria Steinem
  28. Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. – Gloria Steinem
  29. I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise. – Gloria Steinem
  30. Even migrating birds know that nature doesn’t demand a choice between nesting and flight. – Gloria Steinem
  31. Altogether, I can’t imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there. – Gloria Steinem
  32. hate generalizes, love specifies – Gloria Steinem
  33. After all, hope is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem
  34. It’s important for someone who could play the game – and win – to say: ‘the game isn’t worth shit. – Gloria Steinem
  35. To be just, a law has to be flexible. – Gloria Steinem
  36. Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad. – Gloria Steinem
  37. Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square. – Gloria Steinem
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  39. The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy….Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. – Phyllis Schlafly
  40. The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? – William Badke

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