Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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