Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
GLORIA STEINEMI have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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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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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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imagining 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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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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