[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
GLORIA STEINEMPower can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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