So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEMIf you really want to be lonely, get married.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Helping begins with listening.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.
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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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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence – and just as adventurous.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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 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 are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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