Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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