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 STEINEMSome of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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 want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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