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 SteinemRead
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
Interpretation
A feminist believes in the equal rights and dignity of both women and men.
In this quote, Gloria Steinem defines feminism not merely as a movement for women's rights, but as a broader recognition of gender equality and the inherent humanity shared by all individuals, regardless of gender. It emphasizes that feminism is inclusive and advocates for the acknowledgement and respect of both women's and men's rights in society.
In practice
In a lecture about gender studies, one might quote Steinem to highlight the importance of recognizing equal rights.
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.
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 should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.
Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.
Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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