when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
GLORIA STEINEMBy the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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