By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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Helping begins with listening.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.
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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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