Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEM[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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