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 STEINEMIn every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.
More Gloria Steinem Quotes
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If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.
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One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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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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[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.
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Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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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I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.
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At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us
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Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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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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I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
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