Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEMBut 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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