Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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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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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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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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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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