It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
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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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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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 have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
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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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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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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