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 STEINEMA feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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 can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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