Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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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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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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 would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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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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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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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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