We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
GLORIA STEINEMI want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.
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The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.
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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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If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
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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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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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Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
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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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Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.
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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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You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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 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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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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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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There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.
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Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
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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.
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In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
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