It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
GLORIA STEINEMImagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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