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.
GLORIA STEINEMI have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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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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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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By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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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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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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