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Us Quotes by Gloria Steinem
- I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is…
- I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
- Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!
- 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.
- This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.
- The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.
- Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.
- The moment we find the reason behind an emotion Â… the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too.…
- 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…
- I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.
- Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths…
- Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
- The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
- A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
- The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
- For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families…
- Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.
- we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud
- Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece…
- The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
- No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules…
- I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong