Behave like everything you do matters.
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 want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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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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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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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