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.
GLORIA STEINEMMarriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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