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.
GLORIA STEINEMThe 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
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.
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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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