The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
GLORIA STEINEMBy the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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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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[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.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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