Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
GLORIA STEINEMWe’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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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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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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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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