Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEMWe choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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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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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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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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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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 art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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