The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEMWe choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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 really want to be lonely, get married.
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