The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
GLORIA STEINEMOnce we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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