If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
GLORIA STEINEMWomen can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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