The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
GLORIA STEINEMwhen pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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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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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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