A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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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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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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