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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.

Gloria Steinem

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEM

People Person Relationship Right Search
What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
GLORIA STEINEM

Action Ambition Choice Day Dreams Form Future Hope Kind Music Need Nurture Poetry Talent Thinking Value Violence
[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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Around Golden Men Need Ourselves Rule Self Love Way Women Work Writing
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Generation Knowledge Learning Teaching
Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
GLORIA STEINEM

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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
GLORIA STEINEM

Choice Poet Talk Writing
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.
GLORIA STEINEM

Acceptance Authentic Believe Celebration Myself People Question
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
GLORIA STEINEM

Blame Change Culture Myself Thinking
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEM

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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
GLORIA STEINEM

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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GLORIA STEINEM

Dreaming Form Planning
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
GLORIA STEINEM

Bake Creation Existence Fair Feminism Job Life Pieces Women
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 STEINEM

Abuse Age Bury Children Degree Endurance Neglect Ourselves Rebel Resistant Shame Spiritual Wait Wisdom

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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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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