The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
GLORIA STEINEMWomen tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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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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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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