Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
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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[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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Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.
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Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
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Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.
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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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learning must travel the distance from head to heart.
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I 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.
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Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.
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Behave like everything you do matters.
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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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I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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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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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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So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
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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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Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.
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Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.
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If you really want to be lonely, get married.
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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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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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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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