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.
GLORIA STEINEMBehave like everything you do matters.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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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 being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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[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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