A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
GLORIA STEINEMShow me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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 art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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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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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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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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