Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
GLORIA STEINEMImagining 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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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