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.
GLORIA STEINEMThe art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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