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.
Interpretation
This quote celebrates the bravery of women who push boundaries despite lacking a historical guide.
Gloria Steinem's quote emphasizes the extraordinary courage of women who embark on ambitious paths without the comfort of historical precedents. By acknowledging their vulnerability and the limitations of past guidance, she highlights their strength and the deep emotional impact their journeys have on others, inspiring a broader recognition of their achievements and challenges.
In practice
In a speech advocating for women's rights, one might use this quote to highlight the strength of women leaders.
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.
All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
I'm lucky I don't make my living in front of the camera.
Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.
Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.
I would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.
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