We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
GLORIA STEINEMI don’t like writing. I like having written.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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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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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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