Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEMI don’t like writing. I like having written.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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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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Helping begins with listening.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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