So whatever you want to do, just do it… Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
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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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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Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.
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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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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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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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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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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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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
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Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
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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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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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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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The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights
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Whatever you want to do,do it now.
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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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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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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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