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.
GLORIA STEINEMBehave like everything you do matters.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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
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