The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEMI 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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 future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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 art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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