Behave like everything you do matters.
GLORIA STEINEMThe 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
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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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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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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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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