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
Diane Keaton is good for women in and of herself. She's smart and funny and real.
Interpretation
The quote celebrates Diane Keaton as a positive role model for women, highlighting her intelligence, humor, and authenticity.
Gloria Steinem admires Diane Keaton for embodying qualities that are beneficial for women. By describing Keaton as smart, funny, and real, Steinem emphasizes the importance of authenticity and intelligence in female representation, suggesting that such traits can inspire and uplift women in various aspects of life.
In practice
In a speech about female empowerment, one could quote Gloria Steinem to highlight strong female figures in the entertainment industry.
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.
For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.
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