We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
GLORIA STEINEMThe 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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