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.
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.
Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.
As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.
I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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