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 STEINEMThere is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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