when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
GLORIA STEINEMHope is a very unruly emotion.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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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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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 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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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