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.
GLORIA STEINEMFeminism 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.
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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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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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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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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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 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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