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.
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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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 voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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