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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More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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 voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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