By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEMHelping begins with listening.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Helping begins with listening.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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