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.
GLORIA STEINEMHousewives are dependent creatures who are still children, parasites.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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I 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.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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