So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEMFar too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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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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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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