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.
GLORIA STEINEMThe authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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