A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEMSo whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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 the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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