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.
GLORIA STEINEMThe voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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