[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.
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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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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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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