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.
I always knew I was gay. I always knew that somehow it would work out.
Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.
Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
I would like to keep fighting until I have my 100th victory. But if I lose, I'll lose fighting hard, with pride and dignity.
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.
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