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.
GLORIA STEINEMEach others’ lives are our best textbooks.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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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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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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 would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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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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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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when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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