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.
GLORIA STEINEMHope is a very unruly emotion.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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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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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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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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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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