Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEMA good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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