The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEMIn order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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