What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.
GLORIA STEINEMWriting keeps me from believing everything I read.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Helping begins with listening.
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I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.
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Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.
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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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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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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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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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.
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We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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