The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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 can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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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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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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