Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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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Inner space is the real frontier.
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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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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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Helping begins with listening.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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If you can learn to like how you look, and not the way you think you look, it can set you free.
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I don’t like writing. I like having written.
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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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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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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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If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
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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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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children…parasites.
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