We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEMBut 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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