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.
GLORIA STEINEMBattered 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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