A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEMSo whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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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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