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 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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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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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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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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