The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
GLORIA STEINEMShow me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Helping begins with listening.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child — a true self who is waiting.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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