So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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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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I 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.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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