Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
GLORIA STEINEMOnce we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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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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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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