If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
GLORIA STEINEMOnce we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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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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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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