Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEMThe voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Helping begins with listening.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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