Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEMOnce we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Helping begins with listening.
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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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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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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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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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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