Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
GLORIA STEINEMHope is a very unruly emotion.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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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 first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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