Quote by Gloria Steinem
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is em

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. – Gloria Steinem

Other quotes by Gloria Steinem

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. – Gloria Steinem

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Future
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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 isnt it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? – Gloria Steinem

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Men
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. – Gloria Steinem

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Men
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power
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. – Joseph Conrad

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power

Prayer is mans greatest power! – W. Clement Stone

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power

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. – Don DeLillo

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power

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. – Andrea Dworkin

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power

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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. – Proverb

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Eyes

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know whats going on. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Nature

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row. – Caitlin Rose

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Knowledge

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. – Annie Dillard

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Age