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 STEINEMRich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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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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