Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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 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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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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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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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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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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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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Helping begins with listening.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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