It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
GLORIA STEINEMIf you really want to be lonely, get married.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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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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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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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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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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Helping begins with listening.
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