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Gloria Steinem

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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Graduation Marriage Men Myself Yourself
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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Abuse Age Bury Children Degree Endurance Neglect Ourselves Rebel Resistant Shame Spiritual Wait Wisdom
Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Equality Home Men Position Women
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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Believe Difficult Experience Heart Intertwined Love Pain
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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Bake Creation Existence Fair Feminism Job Life Pieces Women
The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Art Control Life Ourselves
Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Best Life Live Note Ourselves Story Wisdom
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Choice Need Order Power See Yourself
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Easy Give Up Respect Self Love Validation
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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Enough Part Power Process Strong
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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Action Ambition Choice Day Dreams Form Future Hope Kind Music Need Nurture Poetry Talent Thinking Value Violence
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Authority Color Government Institution Skin
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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Funny People Talk World
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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People Person Relationship Right Search
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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Believe Born Combination Environment Hereditary Human Prediction Result Unique Way
By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Believe Children Faith God Hope Human Myself Ourselves Potential Power Raise

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