Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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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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[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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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