Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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