Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEMWhat 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.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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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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