Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
GLORIA STEINEMEach others’ lives are our best textbooks.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.
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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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